Dedekind Math Quotes & Sayings

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament ... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon. — Thomas A. Edison

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. — Eric Sevareid

Maybe I should know the rules," he says softly.
"Pfft. I'm not a game." I reach out to poke his shoulder, and unexpectedly he catches my finger.
"Sometimes, I'm not so sure. — Brooklyn Skye

Had you been lying all along? Mum gently stroked my hair. I whispered into her shoulder. "I can't go back. Not yet. I can't leave." And she held my head tight to her chest and wrapped her arms around me. "You don't have to," she said, rocking me. "You don't have to do anything you don't want to do, not anymore." And I cried. — Lucy Christopher

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart. — Thomas Brooks

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever. — Ashley Beale

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past. — David Oyelowo

I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. — Edward Abbey

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity. — Brad Paisley

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. — Leo Rosten

The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know. — Jim Butcher

Numbers are the free creation of the human mind. — Richard Dedekind

South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way. — Vladimir Putin

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. — David Simon

I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them. — Mitt Romney

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car. — Jonathan Safran Foer