Absent minded Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image “Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absent minded Command Engines Levers Mathematics Respect Use
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Hate maths? Yeah :| Cool! Finding solutions to useless problems are of no use. — Nitika Yadav Copy Share Image
The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. — George Iles Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Im still waiting for the day that I will actually use all the Mathematics formula in real life ! — Carissa Aydaa Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
I am a gifted absent-minded person who honks the horn at speed breakers / speed bumps. — Mohit Sharma Copy Share Image
“I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening.… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out,… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
“He wrote Véra sheepishly: “Something has happened (only don’t be angry). I can’t remember (for God’s sake, don’t be angry!) I can’t remember (promise… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. — George Burns Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Once a hunter met a lion near the hungry critter's lair, and the way that lion mauled him was decidedly unfair; but the hunter… — Walt Mason Copy Share Image
