Letters Quote by Howard Whitley Eves Download Open image “We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.” — Howard Whitley Eves ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Letters Lines Slopes
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
“How are you going to teach logic in a world where everybody talks about the sun setting, when it’s really the horizon rising? [Cal… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which he can… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Dear Beloved woman, Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words for me. And yet I remember it as… — Talon P.S Copy Share Image
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image