Attitude Quote by Edward Charles Titchmarsh

The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth…

— Keith Devlin

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

— Susan Jeffers

There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity…

— Augustus De Morgan

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances…

— Leopold Kronecker

No matter how negative someone is to you, do not throw their behavior back in their face. To all the mathematicians out there, I…

— Anonymous

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

— Terence McKenna

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather…

— Halldór Laxness

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

— Gertrude Stein

My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like…

— Jodi Picoult

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

— Albert Einstein

“This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the…

— Orson Scott Card