Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
Walter Kohn -
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
Karine Vanasse
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
Nancy Roman -
I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
E. T. Bell -
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra -
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde -
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
Maya Angelou
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
Eric Brown -
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles -
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.
Alexander Grothendieck -
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
Andy Rooney -
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
T Bone Burnett -
Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
Daniel Shipley
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Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
Edward G. Begle -
One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.
Richard Feynman -
To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.
Josh Peck -
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway -
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
Alex Shakar -
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus