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.

Cindy Moore

Recovery work at the crash site will resume upon the arrival of a mortuary affairs team.

Genderen Stort

Our representative was at a meeting with the ministry of foreign affairs and nothing was mentioned.

Genderen Stort

Our representative was at a meeting at 2 p.m. (12:00 p.m. British time) with the ministry of foreign affairs and nothing was mentioned.

Ginger McCain

Paul was very good about the whole affair and said that if Inca Trail adapts to Liverpool and goes and does it, he could go very close. If he does, the credit's his, not ours.

Lao Tzu

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

John Pilger

Staff have been attacked by US marines, doctors have been shot, emergency medicines blocked. Children have been murdered in front of their families. Now imagine the same state of affairs imposed on the London hospitals that received the victims of the bombing.

Miriam Makeba

Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But the land was too rich and too good. The powerful and greedy invaders saw this at once.

Colin Campbell

Our game reports are not for public dissemination and particularly not for politicians who may be using this whole disjointed affair to seemingly garner votes.

Donald Rumsfeld

managing their affairs as people responsible for weapons of that power.