Nikolai Lobachevsky Quotes

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

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• The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Great
  • Book

• You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Independent

• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Past
  • Fashion
  • Inspiration

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Want
  • Stop

• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Struggle

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Pizza
  • Fat
  • Mystic

• I grew up in the church.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Church
  • Grew

• Teamwork is a strategic decision.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decision
  • Teamwork

• Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Heart
  • Gold
  • Classroom

• If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame…

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Memory

• The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Control
  • Deaths

• There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Friends
  • Mom
  • Point

• But frankly, if there were any real problems, we would have seen them yesterday,

  

  Sam Reed
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Seen

• I don't like to attach myself to material things.

  

  Jourdan Dunn
  • Things
  • Material
  • Attach

• [The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.

  

  Morris Kline
  • Understanding
  • Teacher
  • Students

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

  

  Nikolai Lobachevsky
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract
  • Branch