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During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had…
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[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He…
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Common integration is only the memory of differentiation...
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I was x years old in the year x2.
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a…
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He…
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The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a…
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The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
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The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would…
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It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
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I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual…
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And…
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The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'
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Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a…
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If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't…
— Tom Lehrer
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Irrationality is the square root of all evil
— Douglas Hofstadter
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No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the…
— Michael Atiyah
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There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the…
— George Gamow
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The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two…
— John Perry
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and…
— Carson McCullers
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Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
— Henry Spencer
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Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?
— Aprilynne Pike
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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
— Terry Pratchett
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You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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