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math numbers praying
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number? Abraham Verghese
math appreciate tears
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit. Thomas F. Wilson
math ideas i-can
Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say. Raymond Smullyan
math needs hundred
Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything. Lisa Kleypas
math america errors
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
math flames advice
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language. Michio Kaku
math simple circles
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. Evan Esar
math technology engineering
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times. Just as a musician has a love of music which drives him to become outstanding in that field, so we must inculcate in some of our qualified young people such an interest in science that they will turn to it of themselves. Ezra Taft Benson
math lazy logic
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. Francis Crick
circles stuff bebop
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. Carla Bley
circles know-yourself knows
Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight. Rita Ora
circles giving world
Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. Frances Mayes
circles people trying
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. George Strait
circles shapes ifs
I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape. Jerry Springer
circles way should
The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand. Mohnish Pabrai
circles apples microsoft
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle. Terry Pratchett
circles reason-why conservative
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life. Leo Tolstoy
circles generations tails
Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life. Joseph Campbell
strange
The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me. Billy Corgan
stranger sisyphus
For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself. Albert Camus
stranger walks
we walk the plank with strangers. Sylvia Plath
strange wonderful realizing
A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension. Margaret Haddix
strange humans human-beings
I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me. Terence
strange used advocating
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. Fiona Apple
strange
How strange women are. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
strange advocating
I come from a pretty strange family. Illeana Douglas
strange painting
Painting is a strange business. J. M. W. Turner