Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

W. Somerset Maugham

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

Temple Grandin

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

John Calvin

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Lord Kelvin

Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense.

Fred Thompson

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Jimmy Carter

And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Jimmy Carter

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

Ian Mckellen

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves they can accomplish.

John Schuerholz

I think it's obvious. If he doesn't do what he's doing for us, I can only imagine where we'd be. I can't imagine a player on a winning team being more valuable to his team than he's been.

William Rhodes

I'd imagine over time you'll see more moves,

Richard M. Nixon

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

Roger Waters

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Jon Gruden

I really didn't imagine this scenario. But usually those are the scenarios that come to be.

Staci Hall

I love my kids so much and I couldn't imagine someone not being able to have their own family.

Russell Hoban

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

Gustave Flaubert

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Max Black

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Georg Cantor

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Bill Gates

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.