Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Alan Stern

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

Alan Turing

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Shepard

Why don't you light that candle ?

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

C. S. Lewis

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.

C. S. Lewis

If you thirst you may drink.

C. S. Lewis

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...

Agnes Smedley

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

Aaron Sorkin

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

Alan Shepard

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Charlotte Bronte

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Mel Gibson

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

Mark Twain

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Horace

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.