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.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be important.
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I don't rely on my figure to sell records.
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They could never make me hate you. Even though what you was doing wasn't tasteful.. Even though you out here looking so ungrateful.. I'm a keep it moving, be classy and graceful
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I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
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I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.
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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.
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I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
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True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
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I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
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Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.
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The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
