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.

Granth Sahib

Meditate and listen to the Name of the Lord, and give it to everyone. In this way, the filth of lifetimes of karma shall be removed, and egotistical pride shall vanish from your mind.

Tim Hamilton

If this keeps up, our quality of life is going in the toilet and they are getting filthy rich.

Granth Sahib

When my Lord and Master is totally pleased, He leads the mortal to meditate in remembrance on the Lord, and then his filth is taken away

Willie Aames

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

Dustin Pedroia

He had pretty filthy stuff. He's telling us where it's going and it was still tough to hit. He looks like he's in midseason form.

E. M. Forster

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

William Tucker

ready to go to jail, ready to die, whatever is necessary to stop this pornographic filth ...

J. K. Rowling

There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them.

Michael Davidson

A lot of it has to do with keeping dirt, filth and debris, any pollutants, out of the water.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.