Nikolai Lobachevsky Quotes

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid.

Nikolai Lobachevsky

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• I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Ski
  • Descending
  • Himalayas

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Talk
  • Snake

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Landscape

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Better

• In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • America
  • Dislike

• That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Cute
  • Lana Del Rey

• As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Body

• From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Learning
  • Year
  • Research

• I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.

  

  Jessica Anne Newham
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • World

• All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Writing
  • May
  • Reality

• We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

  

  David Axelrod
  • God
  • Hand
  • Flying

• Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.

  

  Berti Vogts
  • Success
  • Team
  • Winning

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.

  

  Andra Day
  • Cool
  • Hair
  • Victory

• We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

  

  Allan Savory
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid.

  

  Nikolai Lobachevsky
  • Science
  • Geometry
  • Analytics