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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in…
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less…
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Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler,…
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The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him…
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the…
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at…
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De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at…
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we…
— Oscar Romero
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the…
— Alberto Manguel
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from…
— George Mason
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Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that…
— Arianna Huffington
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The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.…
— George Carlin
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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