William Fogg Osgood Quotes
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
William Fogg Osgood
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
Nancy Byrd Turner
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I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.
Andy Roddick
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He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.
Arthur Hiller
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I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.
Jeff Goldblum
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We have self-assessment tools, computer-based tools to see how we are performing mentally in outer space and there's some also very interesting technology and work that's being funded by NRSBI to look at facial recognition to look at your patterns to see if you're experiencing stress or fatigue. It's a kind of thing that I think will gain acceptance with gradually. But it probably has more to immediate application in things like homeland security, and looking at facial recognition of people going through airports and things like that to see who's under stress.
Leroy Chiao
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.
William Farr
