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19503 Two quotes by 9407 unique authors
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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
— Paul Gauguin
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With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product…
— Richard Courant
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There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than…
— Unknown Author
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A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.
— Hendrik Lenstra
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There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.
— Chen-Ning Yang
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I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy individuals... As commonly…
— Karl Landsteiner
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Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in…
— Linus Pauling
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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.
— Laozi
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I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that…
— G. H. Hardy
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I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference:…
— Charles Darwin
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When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So…
— Paul Erdos
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Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job…
— Unknown Author
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Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as…
— George Polya
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The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve…
— George Polya
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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
— Mark Twain
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It's not an issue. Everyone's focused on us trying to get a victory. That's where the focus lies. ... We're trying to win a game.…
— Unknown Author
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He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and…
— Unknown Author
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These two points are lies. UN Resolution 2758 does not say a word about the relationship between Taiwan and China, let alone say that the…
— Annette Lu
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Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
— C.S. Lewis
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Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or…
— Gertrude Stein
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But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the…
— Lincoln Chafee
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While you're figuring out what to do, we've tried two different things and have figured out the right one.
— Josh James
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Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your heart. The two…
— Robben Ford
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