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.

Ricky Gervais

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

Mother Teresa

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Robert Toombs

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

James Bamford

It produces, probably produces, 80 percent of the intelligence the United States uses, ... The Puzzle Palace.

Scott Becker

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Jason Lee

The show really is balanced, from the writing to the way it's shot, with intelligence and humanity. It's always sweet at the end of the episode. You really do like Earl.

Alex Winter

The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.