Edward Kasner Quotes

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Edward Kasner

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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Poetry

• Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Man
  • Way
  • Lazy

• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Charity

• I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• 'This is my story, this is my song If you feel it, muthafucka, you can't go wrong to the screw-face niggaz, whatch you on? Get off that, get a goal and focus dawg'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Song
  • Focus

• I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Trust

• Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

  

  Protagoras
  • Truth
  • Together

• Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Time
  • Winter

• My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

  

  James Bay
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Party

• My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

• In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

  

  John C. Hawkes
  • People

• In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

  

  John Hockenberry
  • People

• I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Innovation

• Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις.

  

  Aeschylus

• Art and science have their meeting point in method.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Art
  • Science

• CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Time
  • Son
  • Brother

• I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Golf
  • Sport
  • Hobby

• Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

  

  Edward Kasner