Edmund Landau Quotes
I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
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Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.
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Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.
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If we don't succeed on the climate change agenda, we risk getting feedbacks that undermine everything else.
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
