Decimal Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is…
— Henri Poincare
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In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure…
— William Cecil Dampier
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism…
— Will Durant
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The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.
— Michelle Rodriguez
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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
— William Gilmore Simms
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I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided…
— Daniel Tammet
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What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell, 
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the…
— Sylvia Plath
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Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for…
— Daniel Tammet
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Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library…
— Neal Shusterman
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Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
— Brian Selznick
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For the record, do I know anyone not a demon or a freak?†– Nick “Yes, you do. Not sure if Bubba and Mark go…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished…
— Brian Selznick
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There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages…
— Libba Bray
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Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of…
— Barry Ritholtz
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When you let somebody else calculate your existence you will always be one decimal place away from being a whole number.
— Sylvia Fox
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Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your .
— Tom Lehrer
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I'm a punch line professional, far from conventional, Always make a point like what comes right before a decimal, I never ate my vegetables, skipped…
— Chris Webby
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I spent six months working as a temp in Hanslow Library and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat...I'm good with numbers.…
— Donna Noble
Who Wrote These Decimal Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Decimal Quotes as follows: