Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Bill Cosby

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Carl Sagan

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Reggie Evans

That was all (garbage) because all them young guys, they play (center). I play (power forward). Do the math on that. That was just more (garbage).

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

John Whitacre

Our 1999 results reflect a year in which we established a solid foundation for the future.

Francisco Costa

Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.

Azzedine Alaia

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Hillary Clinton

I want to work with my husband and my daughter on our mutual foundation interests.

Larry Russell

It gives (students) a good foundation for the rest of their lives.

Alonzo Church

I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a minor paper about the Lorentz transformation, the foundation of (special) relativity theory.

Ariel Sharon

foundation and cornerstone for the great opportunities which lie before us.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

William Paul

The painting put all of the pieces together and proved it was real.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Edvard Munch

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.