Smart Mathematical Quotes & Sayings

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century. — Ricky Jay

It matters little that our churches rise to heaven, that the capitals of their pillars are sculptured and gilded, that our parchment is tinted purple, that gold is melted to form the letters of our manuscripts, and that their bindings are set with precious stones, if we have little or no care for the members of Christ, and if Christ Himself lies naked and dying before our doors. — Very Rev. John B. O'Connor O.P. P.G.

What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart. — Steven Johnson

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love. — Corra May Harris

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to nature, it dies; and so a man. — Henry David Thoreau

Visit?" Yeden asked uncomfortably. "You're going to visit the Lord Ruler? Are you insa ... " Yeden trailed off, then glanced at the rest of the room. "Right. I forgot. — Brandon Sanderson

I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to. — Ashlan Thomas

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life. — Jessamyn West

In my case dust has become Gold — A.R. Rahman

And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical
because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in. — Jeffrey Eugenides

If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way. — David Mitchell

He leaned toward me, and I realized his eyes looked forward, not to the side. Eyes to the front, the creature hunts. Eyes to the side, the creature hides. "Haven't you ever wanted to rule the world, Mr. Fraser?" I — Bryan Fields

~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~

The doctor told me something once
she said
STOP DRINKING
I slapped her across the face with this
NO
I walked right out of that office
went right down to the hole
I told the bartender
WHISKEY, MOTHERFUCKER
he poured and he poured
and I slapped my money down on that bar
the man I had been driving around with
he just sort of sat there next to this hooker
she probably had something rotten
way down there between her legs
her eyes told of no soul
I emptied the bottle down my throat
and ordered some chips
the bartender told me
THEY'RE STALE
and I give him a
I DON'T FUCKIN' CARE,
GIVE ME SOMETHIN'
He slid me a ham sandwich dripping with cheap low-fat mayo and said
ENJOY
I went back to my room
and talked all night
so much conversation
it turned the toilet bowl pale — Dave Matthes

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as
processed carbs. They're loaded with sugar and other additives.
The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive
we feel. The more dead foods we eat ... well, you get the idea. — Tony Horton

I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular. — Deval Patrick