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  In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.
 ~math quotes by Author Unknown

  The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
 ~inspirational sayings about Math quotes by Euclid

  Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
 ~math quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

  Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born; I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born. I may add that the exact figures are 1.067, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre.
 ~famous quotes about Math by Charles Babbage, letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about a couplet in his The Vision of Sin

  So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
 ~math sayings by Francis Bacon, Of Studies

  Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.
 ~math quotes by Robertson Davies, Of the Conservation of Youth, The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

  It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
 ~inspirational sayings about Sex quotes by H.L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956

  The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
 ~math quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law

  Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
 ~famous quotes about Math by Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule

  A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars. That's subtraction.
 ~math sayings by Mae West

  It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
 ~math quotes by Samuil Shchatunovski

  God is real, unless declared integer.
 ~inspirational sayings about Math quotes by Author Unknown

  In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end.
 ~math quotes by Vivian Hunter Galbraith, An Introduction to the Study of History

  A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
 ~famous quotes about Math by Paul Erdos

  In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.
 ~math sayings by Hermann Hankel

   There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.
 ~math quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

   When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.
 ~good sayings about Tattoos by Michelle Delio

   One cannot erect, on the basis of a motive that exists only for a very few, an obligation that shall apply to everyone.
 ~math quotes by Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

   Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
 ~motivational quotes about Living sayings by Euripides, Alexander

   People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
 ~math sayings by Ramsey Clark

   Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom
 ~math quotes by Marcel Proust

   Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
 ~good sayings about Honesty by Winston Churchill

   Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
 ~math quotes by J. Swartz

   I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.
 ~motivational quotes about Sports sayings by Rob Lee, 1998

   Believing you know it all, will guarantee you learn nothing - and achieve even less.
 ~math sayings by Nisandeh Neta

   Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
 ~math quotes by Jessamyn West

   Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole
 ~good sayings about Cool by Vicki Baum

   To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
 ~math quotes by Edmund Burke

   As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
 ~motivational quotes about Writing sayings by Virginia Woolf

   Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
 ~math sayings by C.C. Colton

   The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
 ~math quotes by John F. Kennedy

   Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
 ~good sayings about Failure by George Horace Lorimer

   Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
 ~math quotes by Cullen Hightower

   Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
 ~motivational quotes about Language sayings by Quentin Crisp

   A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother
 ~math sayings by Author Unknown

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