Chaos Quote by John Maynard Keynes Download Open image “The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.” — John Maynard Keynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chaos Helping Men Order World
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian mathematicians made… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
“This was the eloquence of alphabets and numeric systems, now fully realized in electronic form, in the zero-oneness of the world, the digital imperative… — Don Delillo, Cosmopolis Copy Share Image
“Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation for life… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do arithmetic had… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
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