#Math

Jun

2019

Patterns in Nature

From: Pi

12:45, restate my assumptions: 1) mathematics is the language of Nature. 2) Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3) If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in Nature.

Sean Gullette (Maximillian Cohen)

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May

2019

Scientific rigor

From: Pi

As soon as you discard scientific rigor, you're no longer a mathematician. You're a numerologist.

Mark Margolis (Sol Robeson)

Feb

2017

69, dudes

From: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Sixty-nine, dudes!

Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston, Esq.) | Keanu Reeves (Ted 'Theodore' Logan)

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Jan

2017

Victims of mathematics

From: Babylon 5

Episode: A Voice in the Wilderness: Part 1 (1994) (Season 1, Episode 18)

Physics tells us that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us. We hate them. They hate us back. And so here we are: victims of mathematics.

Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari)

Jul

2016

Poetic license

From: Dilbert

Episode: The Prototype (1999) (Season 1, Episode 3)

What the heck? "Oh Lena, sweet Lena / A female divinity / My passions exceed / Pi R squared times Infinity"? Have you lost your mind?! That is not only the most nauseating thing I've ever read, it's meaningless if R is undefined! –Poetic license.

Kathy Griffin (Alice) | Daniel Stern (Dilbert)

Dec

2015

Second sled

From: Doctor Who (II)

Episode: Last Christmas (2014) (Season 9, Episode 0)

It's Christmas Eve. –Yeah. You don't have to tell me that. –Yeah, well, then why aren't you out delivering presents? –Technically, I am. –Well, you're not, 'cause you're stood right there. –Oh, Shona, grow up, luv. –Yeah, do the math, baby. –There's not just one Santa delivery team. How could there be? There are 526,403,012 children all expecting presents before tomorrow morning. So that's 22,000,000 children per hour! That's impossible. Obviously, I've got a second sled.

Faye Marsay (Shona) | Nick Frost (Santa Claus) | Dan Starkey (Ian)

Jun

2010

Only one potato

From: Psycho Beach Party

Strange that the victim had only one testicle stuffed in his mouth. I believe they usually come in pairs. –Well, that's 'cause he only had one. I checked. Plenty of meat, only one potato.

Charles Busch (Captain Monica Stark) | Jenica Bergere (Cookie)

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Apr

2010

Ganas

From: Stand And Deliver

There will be no free rides. No excuses. You already have two strikes against you. There are some people in this world who will assume that you know less than you do because of your name and your complexion. But math is the great equalizer. When you go for a job, the person giving you that job will not want to hear your problems, and neither do I. You're going to work harder than you ever worked before. And the only thing I ask from you is ganas. Desire.

Edward James Olmos (Jaime A. Escalante)

Apr

2010

The concept of zero

From: Stand And Deliver

Did you know that neither the Greeks nor the Romans were capable of using the concept of zero? It was your ancestors, the Mayas, who first contemplated the zero: the absense of value. True story. You burros have math in your blood.

Edward James Olmos (Jaime A. Escalante)