Margaret Wertheim Quotes

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

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• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

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• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

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• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

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• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

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• The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  

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• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
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• We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

  

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• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  

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• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

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• If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

  

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• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

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• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
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• Ed ènne dolce così fatto scemo,perché il ben nostro in questo ben s'affina,che quel che vole Iddio, e noi volemo.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.

  

  Margaret Wertheim
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women