Mathematical Aptitude Quotes

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.

I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up, but it's the stuff in your head, you know? It's like being technologically adept. You have it or you don't. You can learn it, but some people just have it. They go to sleep, wake up, and know everything. I like games, too. I love playing games.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.