Mathematics quotes

“- Mr. Thorn: Murph! What's 3 plus 2?
- Murph: Mmmmm... 4.
- Mr. Thorn: Murph, you've been in the 6th grade since I started teaching here, I really want to get you out this year. Now, please, please work with me. What's 3 plus 2?”
James Tolkan - Mr. Thorn
Eric Edwards - Murph

“Those are primes! 2,3,5,7, those are all prime numbers and there's no way that's a natural phenomenon!”

Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

- Del: Okay, we're solving for "n".
- Vicky: But that's a letter. I thought this was math.
- Del: It's algebra. That is math.
- Vicky: Oh...
Donovan Leitch Jr. - Del
Jennifer Runyon - Vicky

“- Linda Ash: My father's brother was supposed to be a genius. I never met him, but everybody said he was brilliant.
- Lenny Weinrib: Really? What did he do?
- Linda Ash: He was a serial rapist. He spent his whole life in jail, but if he had gone straight, he might have been very good in math.”
Mira Sorvino - Linda Ash
Woody Allen - Lenny

“Natalie! I was wondering, if you were driving 55 miles per hour and you collided with a runaway train, would it make any improvement on your face?”
Corey Feldman - Dean

“- Mr. Herbert Garrison: What is five times two? Now come on children, don't be shy, just give it your best shot.
- Clive: Twelve.
- Mr. Herbert Garrison: OK, now let's try to get an answer from someone who's not a complete retard.”
Trey Parker - Mr. Herbert Garrison

“Mathematics is the only true universal language.”
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Joey: Age?
- Patient: Can't you work that out by my date of birth?
- Joey: I'm a doctor, not a mathematician.”

Matt LeBlanc - Joey Tribbiani

“- Benny: Where are you gonna get four fourths and a third? Can't you add?
- Denny: I don't do fractions, all right?”

Jon Lovitz - Benny
Michael Rapaport - Denny

“- Tom Bartlett: How do you know so much about paper airplanes?
- Amanda Shelton: I hated algebra.”
Sean Patrick Flanery - Tom Bartlett
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Amanda Shelton

“- Ginny: Is that a new watch?
- Robert Green: Ya, dual time zones: tells the time in two places.
- Ginny: What for?
- Robert Green: So if I'm in L.A. and want to know the time in New York I don't have to go through the anguish of adding three.”
Kathleen Wilhoite - Ginny
Alec Baldwin - Robert Green

“Hey Romy, remember Mrs. Divitz's class, there was like always a word problem. Like, there's a guy in a rowboat going X miles, and the current is going like, you know, some other miles, and how long does it take him to get to town? It's like, who cares? Who wants to go to town with a guy who drives a rowboat?”
Lisa Kudrow - Michele Weinberger

“- Cher: If it's a concussion, you have to keep her conscious, okay? Ask her questions.
- Elton: What's seven times seven?
- Cher: Stuff she knows.”
Alicia Silverstone - Cher
Jeremy Sisto - Elton

“- The Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy! Rapture! I got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?
- The Wizard of Oz: You can't.”
Ray Bolger - The Scarecrow
Frank Morgan - The Wizard of Oz

“- Leaven: How do you map a point that keeps moving?
- Worth: Permutations.”
Nicole de Boer - Leaven
David Hewlett - Worth