Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Edward Gibbon

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

David Hilbert

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

David Hilbert

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

David Hilbert

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Mark Blondin

We are going to shut down their operations, and if he would do the math he would come back to the table,

Bertrand Russell

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Bertrand Russell

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

Hans Bender

The society of mankind is getting into irrationality. The fundamentals are not right.

Baruch Spinoza

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Edmund Burke

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

Thomas Carlyle

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

Rumi

No better love than love with no object

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.