Mathematics Quote by Katharine Haake Download Open image ““Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.”” — Katharine Haake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mathematics
“Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive. They can… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite… — Ursula K. Le Guina Copy Share Image
“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.” — A.R. Wise Copy Share Image
“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.” — Danny Kahneman Copy Share Image
“There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.” — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Even as I learned to name the plants -- dogwood, five-fingered fern, mugwort -- I was stunned by the failure of language to reflect… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Poets dream of being archaeologists, as if their lives were sedimentary, like rocks. Poets don't mind getting down and dirty with the past.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“When a basket is woven, each strand of grass, or reed, or wool, or root, must pass repeatedly through human hands, and this, the… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is both. We… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“In general, we imagine rivers to be subject to a kind of dynamic equilibrium, largely stable geologic features, with processes like regional incision or… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception. — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“How in the world did I ever find you?” Mackenzie Winters “Math class.” Brandon Knight” — Bella Jeanisse Copy Share Image
“One is the notion that knowledge is worth acquiring, all knowledge, and that a solid grounding in mathematics provides one with the essential language… — William H. Patterson Jr Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony? — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
