Edward Kasner Quotes

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Edward Kasner

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Nature
  • Dream
  • Religion

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Change
  • Living
  • Iron

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Night

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Important
  • Writing

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• 'There's no free will,' says the philosopher; 'To hang is most unjust.''There is no free will,' assents the officer; 'We hang because we must.'

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Free

• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  

  David Mumford
  • Life
  • Children
  • Love

• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Thought

• Experimental Physicist Phys. I cannot imagine myself perceiving non-Euclidean space!Math. Look at the reflection of the room in a polished doorknob, and imagine yourself one of the actors in what you see going on there.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Space
  • Reflection
  • Math

• I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

  

  Nigel Dennis
  • State
  • Photograph
  • Wildlife

• The spirit is the only thing that is free within, which has no hang-ups, which has no habits, which does not stick on to anything, is completely detached and emitting joy to us.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Painting
  • Mathematics
  • Activity