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

• 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 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

• I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.

  

  John Tavener
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• I want to play. Obviously we didn't get it done the first time I was a part of that team. If God blesses me with another opportunity to try it, it would be an honor. I would have a second shot at fulfilling one of my goals.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • God
  • Done

• Just as it's possible to write a TCP/IP protocol stack in some utterly inappropriate programming language like ML or Visual Basic, so, too, it's possible to implement TCP/IP over carrier pigeons, or paper tape, or daemons summoned from the vasty deep.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Deep

• I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

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

  

  Edward Kasner