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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
math magnificence study
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
mathematics grids type
... nets, grids, and other types of calculus. Alan Watts
math race age
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures. David Krumholtz
math promise violence
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. David Graeber
mathematics certain known
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). Carl Sagan
math people guy
When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that. Casey Affleck
math mathematics shut
We are going to shut down their operations, and if he would do the math he would come back to the table, Mark Blondin
math unjust-society moral
Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society. Charley Reese
mathematical-equations panic firsts
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation. Charles Lindbergh
physics physicist hard
Physics is much too hard for physicists. David Hilbert
physics geometry particles
What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced. Antony Garrett Lisi
physics calculus university
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. Elizabeth Moon
physics unfolding witness
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding. Daniel H. Wilson
physics strings theory
String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century. Edward Witten
physics fluid gravity
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever. Ben Stein
physics tomorrow
Tomorrow is going to be a big physics day. Michael White
physics quantum theory
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. Albert Einstein
physics metaphysics
The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.