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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
mathematics grids type
... nets, grids, and other types of calculus. Alan Watts
mathematics certain known
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). Carl Sagan
mathematics controversy
In mathematics there are no true controversies. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mathematics relation concerned
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
mathematics mathematical possession
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
mathematics characteristics mathematical
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. Charles Sanders Peirce
mathematics masters servant
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. Charles Hermite
mathematics work
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better. Alvin E. Roth
mathematics preferred
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
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It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent. Richard P. Feynman
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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
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I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. Tim Allen
algebra devastated thinking
If you are devastated first thing in the morning, day in and day out, you're not thinking about Algebra II.
algebra asking parent
The parent does not have to know Algebra II by asking these questions.
algebra
I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried. Shelley Hennig
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Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. Marvin Minsky
algebra giving mind
All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving him a job, I keep his mind active.
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The mathematical sciences, in particular algebra and mechanics, provided me with clear and profound examples to confirm the rules I had learned. Johann Heinrich Lambert