Decimal Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that. — Michelle Rodriguez
• I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. — William Gilmore Simms
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When you let somebody else calculate your existence you will always be one decimal place away from being a whole number. — Sylvia Fox
• Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . — Tom Lehrer
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Decimal Quotes by Brian Selznick
• 2 Decimal Quotes by Daniel Tammet
• 1 Decimal Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Decimal Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Decimal Quote by Neal Shusterman
• 1 Decimal Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• 1 Decimal Quote by Libba Bray
• 1 Decimal Quote by Barry Ritholtz
• 1 Decimal Quote by Sylvia Fox
• 1 Decimal Quote by Tom Lehrer
• 1 Decimal Quote by Chris Webby
• 1 Decimal Quote by Donna Noble
• 1 Decimal Quote by Brandon Mccaw
• 1 Decimal Quote by Big Sean
• 1 Decimal Quote by Henri Poincare
• 1 Decimal Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• 1 Decimal Quote by William Cecil Dampier
• 1 Decimal Quote by Will Durant
• 1 Decimal Quote by Michelle Rodriguez
• 1 Decimal Quote by William Gilmore Simms