Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Thomas F. Wilson

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.

Raymond Smullyan

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.

Lord Kelvin

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Lord Kelvin

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Hermann Weyl

The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

Hermann Weyl

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Barney Frank

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

Mark Zandi

I'm a registered Democrat.

Douglas Brinkley

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

Rick Lynch

The insurgents are still there, ... They still want to derail the democratic process. They still want to discredit the Iraqi government, so operations continue.