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

• The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• 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

• Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Comfortable
  • Malaysia

• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • Why
  • America

• 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

• You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• 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

• The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.

  

  Mario Diaz-Balart

• A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

  

  Jessamyn West
  • Forever
  • Broken

• Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Games
  • Shows

• This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Effort
  • Recovery

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

  

  Edward Kasner