Archimedes Quotes

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

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• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Living
  • Lie
  • Secrets

• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Mathematics

• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • More
  • Mathematics
  • Abstract

• I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Secrets

• Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • House
  • Politics
  • Secrets

• After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • Right
  • Secrets

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• I have no secrets.

  

  Larry David
  • Secrets

• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Step
  • Mathematics
  • Elegance

• Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Feel
  • Better

• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Love
  • Know

• I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Moments
  • Glad
  • Humiliated

• The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

  

  Alan Gussow
  • Earth
  • Environment
  • Humanity

• Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

  

  Archimedes
  • Mathematics
  • Secrets
  • Pure Love