Mathematics quotes

“- Maggie Blake: Listen, sweetie, I don't know the boy, but you have to be a bit of a dork to prefer math to a beautiful girl. You know what I'm saying?
- Belle Blake: By the time I'm done with him, he won't be able to count on his fingers.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Maggie Blake
Dianna Agron - Belle Blake

“- Dewey Finn: 8:15 to 10, rock history. 10 to 11, rock appreciation in theory. And then band practice till the end of the day.
- Frankie: What about math?
- Dewey Finn: No, not important.”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Angelo Massagli - Frankie

“- Evelyn Salt: Do you have homework?
- Salt's Young Neighbor: Algebra.
- Evelyn Salt: I hate math.”
Angelina Jolie - Evelyn Salt
Yara Shahidi - Salt's Young Neighbor

“I can count to potato.”
Johnny Knoxville - Steve Barker

“- Alicia Nash: The problem you left on the board, I solved it.
- John Nash: No, you didn't.
- Alicia Nash: You didn't even look!
- John Nash: I never said the vector fields were rational functions... your solution is elegant, though ultimately incorrect.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Alicia Nash
Russell Crowe - John Nash

“Most people wouldn't take the switch out of paranoia, fear, emotions. But Mr. Campbell, he kept his emotions aside and let simple math get his ass into a brand new car!”
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa

“Euclid's first common notion is this: Things which are equal to the same things are equal to each other. That's a rule of mathematical reasoning and its true because it works.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“- April Wheeler: I hear you're a mathematician.
- John Givings: You hear wrong. Its all gone now.
- April Wheeler: All gone?
- John Givings: You know what electrical shock treatments are?
- April Wheeler: Yes. Yes, I do.
- John Givings: I had thirty-seven. It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. It just jolted out the mathematics.”
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler
Michael Shannon - John Givings

“So this is a Harvard bar? I thought there'd be equations and shit on the wall.”
Ben Affleck - Chuckie Sullivan

“Most great artists find mathematics troublesome, Kara. Only use your imagination. Saturn and Earth are in outer space, but we - we are in inner space.”
Peter O'Toole - Zaltar

“- Ricky Bobby: You can't have two number ones.
- Cal Naughton Jr.: Yeah, 'cause that would be eleven.”
Will Ferrell - Ricky Bobby
John C. Reilly - Cal Naughton Jr.

“Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.”
Sir Sean Connery - Sir August de Wynter

“- Betty: I never could do long division. Let's see, how many times does twelve go into seventy-five.
- Timmy: Oh, six times, three left over. Why?
- Betty: Well, at twelve minutes a pound, that means you have to be in the oven by no later than 1:30. Oh, but evisceration takes at least an hour.”
Debbie Harry - Betty
Matthew Lawrence - Timmy

“- Mr. Snelgrove: What's the meaning of this, Peggy Sue?
- Peggy Sue: Well, Mr Snelgrove, I happen to know that in the future I will not have the slightest use for algebra, and I speak from experience.”

Ken Grantham - Mr. Snelgrove
Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue

“- Leon Kodak: You see, the country has mood swings.
- Lewis Rothschild: Mood swings? Nineteen post-graduate degrees in mathematics, and your best explanation for going from a 63 to a 46 percent approval rating in five weeks is mood swings?
- Leon Kodak: Well, I could explain it better, but I'd need charts, and graphs, and an easel.”
David Paymer - Leon Kodak
Michael J. Fox - Lewis Rothschild

“You got me hard as Chinese arithmetic in here!”

D.L. Hughley - Derrick West

“- John Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.
- Alicia Nash: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.”
Russell Crowe - John Nash
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Alicia Nash

“That is the truth of our world, Max. It can't be easily summed up with math.”
Mark Margolis - Sol Robeson

“- Billy Heywood: If Joe can paint a house in three hours and Sam can paint the same house in five hours, how long will it take to paint it together?
- Mac Macnally: Now wait a minute, you never said this was a word problem.”
Luke Edwards - Billy Heywood
John Ashton - Mac Macnally

“The essential arithmetic is that our young men will have to shoot down their young men at the rate of four to one, if we're to keep pace at all.”
Laurence Olivier - Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

“- Sam Hall: I got every question right on the final and the only reason why Mr. Spengler failed me was because I didn't write out the solutions.
- Jack Hall: Why not?
- Sam Hall: I do them in my head.
- Jack Hall: Did you tell him that?
- Sam Hall: I did. He didn't believe me. He said if he couldn't do them in his head then I must be cheating.”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Sam Hall
Dennis Quaid - Jack Hall

Restate my assumptions: One, "Mathematics is the language of nature". Two, "Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers". Three, "If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge". Therefore: there are patterns everywhere in nature.
Sean Gullette - Maximillian Cohen

“If you had had a nickel for every nickel that he has, you would have a lot of nickels.”
Walter Matthau - Albert Einstein

“- Damian: [reading Cady Heron's class schedule] Health, Spanish... you're taking 12th Grade Calculus?
- Cady Heron: Yeah, I like math.
- Damian: Ew. Why?
- Cady Heron: Because it's the same in every country.”
Daniel Franzese - Damian
Lindsay Lohan - Cady Heron

“- Kate Rambeau: Look at your math book; it looks brand new. Bet you've never even opened it.
- Riff Randell: I only use it on special equations.”
Dey Young - Kate Rambeau
P.J. Soles - Riff Randell