Books Quote by John Allen Paulos Download Open image “Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.” — John Allen Paulos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Computation Literature Math Mathematician Mathematics Mathematics by mathematicians Teaching Typing
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.” — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet." — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
