It appears that I have to submit some quote I like along with a picture of myself for inclusion in a yearbook. I've got some good, and potentially relevant ones, but decisions are in order. Evaluations of these, and other ideas, would be appreciated 😉.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -Douglas Adams
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -GH Hardy
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. -George Carlin
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. -Bertrand Russell
Any more?
Pretty good ones! 🙂
Here's some of my favourites:
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".
- Philip K. Dick
"A Mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist myst be at least partially sane."
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
- Ford Prefect in "Life, the Universe and Everything" by Douglas Adams
Woody Allen has quite a few good ones:
"I don't want to be immortal through my work. I want to be immortal through not dying."
"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."
"As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
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-Jarno
Originally posted by royalchickenHonestly i think they are all very good but i think the ones that would seem the most appropriate for your situation would be either:
It appears that I have to submit some quote I like along with a picture of myself for inclusion in a yearbook. I've got some good, and potentially relevant ones, but decisions are in order. Evaluations of these, and other ideas, would be appreciated 😉.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been wi ...[text shortened]... bsurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. -Bertrand Russell
Any more?
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -Douglas Adams
or
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -GH Hardy
If you are in any type of chours or singing program than the one about stupid things being sung would be the best choose, but there are still a lot of quotes out there and ill see if theres any i can find for you. Your chooses are great and i think either of those will be good. 😀
hoped i helped.
jar
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
Metaphysica 1-5
Bolyai, János (1802 - 1860)
Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
[A reference to the creation of a non-euclidean geometry.]
Bridgman, P. W.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
The Logic of Modern Physics, New York, 1972.
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
God is like a skilful Geometrician.
Religio Medici I, 16.
All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.
Hydriotaphia, Urn-burial and the Garden of Cyrus, 1896.
...indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Aunts, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us? ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels; these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisedome of their Maker.
In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956, p. 1001.
Buck, Pearl S. (1892 - 1973)
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."
The Goddess Abides, Pt. I, 1972.
Butler, Samuel (1835 - 1902)
... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio. Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend demonstration, and without which he can do nothing. His superstructure indeed is demonstration, but his ground his faith. Nor again can he get further than telling a man he is a fool if he persists in differing from him. He says "which is absurd," and declines to discuss the matter further. Faith and authority, therefore, prove to be as necessary for him as for anyone else.
The Way of All Flesh.
Just a few quotations about some of the questions we tried to discuss on RHP ...
IvanH
Just for the fun of it:
Carroll, Lewis
What I tell you three times is true.
The Hunting of the Snark.
The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
Alice in Wonderland.
"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."
Through the Looking Glass.
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Alice in Wonderland.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do, " Alice hastily replied; "at least I mean what I say, that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see!"
Alice in Wonderland.
"It's very good jam," said the Queen.
"Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate."
"You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day."
"It must come sometimes to "jam to-day,""Alice objected.
"No it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day; to-day isn't any other day, you know."
"I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing."
Through the Looking Glass.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
Through the Looking Glass.
IvanH
Originally posted by royalchickenwhy not make something up yourself? then it is yours.
It appears that I have to submit some quote ... and other ideas, would be appreciated 😉.
that failing what about that great little one by erdos on senility - perfect thought to leave your teachers with :0
A bunch of totally inappropriate quotes:
"The thing about computers is that they are extremely sophisticated idiots"
"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish"
"Logic mearly enables one to be wrong with authority"
"To the rational mind, nothing is unexplicable: only unexplained"
"One good solid hope is worth a cartload of certainty"
"Never be certain of anyting: it's a sign of weakness"
"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting"
"First things first, though not neccessarily in that order"
"Circular logic will only make you dizzy"
All by the one and only (a.k.a. eight, going on nine) Doctor Who
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"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
i told you i would find some and i think these are some good ones. if you want to see where i got these go to http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html
i looked at almost all of them and these are the best ones in my opnion.
jar 😉
La Touche, Mrs.
I do hate sums. There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic an exact science. There are permutations and aberrations discernible to minds entirely noble like mine; subtle variations which ordinary accountants fail to discover; hidden laws of number which it requires a mind like mine to perceive. For instance, if you add a sum from the bottom up, and then from the top down, the result is always different.
Mathematical Gazette, v. 12.
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1. "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
2. "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
3. "The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
4. "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
5. "Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams."
6. "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
7. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
8. "It's late and the mind wanders, sleep beckons"
PS - only one is mine
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De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871)
[When asked about his age.] I was x years old in the year x^2.
In H. Eves In Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1969.
It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
In H. Eves In Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1969.
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
Transactions Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. X, 1864, p. 184.