Keith Devlin Quotes

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

Keith Devlin

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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

  

  Carl Safina
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• I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
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  • Economy
  • Australia

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

  

  Han Fei
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• I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

  

  Vanilla Ice
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• I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.

  

  Eavan Boland
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  • Future

• If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

  

  Orson Welles
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• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.

  

  Alan Ball
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• I believe it was Nat King Cole that my dad took me to see, and we were sitting in the dressing room, and I blurted out to him, 'Why didn't you sing this?' Referring to whatever song I had wanted to hear, and he told me he was tired of singing it.

  

  Johnny Mathis
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• A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Women

• What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

  

  Samina Baig
  • People
  • Time
  • First Time

• I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

  

  James Turrell
  • Space

• Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Church
  • Morning
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• Of all forms of symbolism, language is the most highly developed, most subtle, and most complicated. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Now, human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce

  

  S. I. Hayakawa

• I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Believe
  • Mathematics
  • Species