Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

Elon Musk

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

Dean Koontz

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Adam McKay

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

Laurence Gonzales

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

Sue Monk Kidd

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

Joshua Harris

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Sarah Palin

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.