Cold Corners

Everything is physics and math. - Katherine Johnson

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost

Mathematics: the only subject that counts. - Unknown

I graduated first in my class from alibi school. - Jeffrey McDaniel

Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin

A college education shows a man how little other people know. - T.C. Hailburton

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

Well, another day has passed and I didn't use Algebra once. - Unknown

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. - Terry Pratchett

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel

Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown

I love Halloween: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner. - Evan Peters

Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. - George Polya

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. - Stephen Hawking

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. - Stephen Hawking

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. - Nick Cave

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins

At night they all come out of the subway and they're hooverin' around the corner. - Archie Bunker

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert

Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough

If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver

I had a feeling once about mathematics – that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go. - Winston Churchill

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. - Aldous Huxley

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. - David Seabury

The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life. - Willard Gaylin

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? - Lynette Mather

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all of their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us. - Suze Orman

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen