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.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carl Sagan

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Lillian Carter

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.

Jesse L. Martin

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Jennifer Taylor

People have had that old mentality that (child care) is just like a baby-sitting service.

Saeb Erekat

start thinking in the mentality of a partner.

Raoul Walsh

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.

Steve Erickson

Overall I think I'm playing a lot better. I've worked a lot more this year and I'm more confident. I'm mentally stronger.

Kevin Simpson

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

Nicole Vaidisova

Physically I was well, mentally I was well. I just never got into my rhythm.

Shane Montgomery

Most of the pressure we saw Saturday we had seen before. We just had some mental breakdowns. You see that sometimes in your first game.