Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Rob Brydon

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Richard P. Feynman

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

Richard P. Feynman

What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Richard P. Feynman

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

Richard P. Feynman

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

William J. Clinton

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

Richard Preston

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.

Vance Wilson

I actually had a 17-pitch at-bat one time. The problem with long at-bats is that you typically miss pitches you should have hit, so you can't get into a mental game.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Keith Butler

He just doesn't make a lot of mental errors,

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Charles Kingsley

For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Douglas Adams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Charles Greene

His wife said he's not going back. And she rules.

Diana Williams

his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.

Travis Kalanick

You're asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, 'So, what's your next wife going to be like?' And I'm like, 'What?'

Willie Aames

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

William Law

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Virchand Gandhi

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

Woody Allen

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats.

William Wycherley

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.