Accomplished Quote by Isaac Barrow Download Open image “An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.” — Isaac Barrow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accomplished Inspirational Mathematician Orators Science Wretched
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics.… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. — Laozi Copy Share Image
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar… — Amy Ridenour Copy Share Image