Footnotes Quote by Mary Roach

“Meaning “by way of the anus.” “Per annum,” with two n’s, means “yearly.” The correct answer to the question, “What is the birth rate…

— Mary Roach

“If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends…

— Bill Bryson

“Eventually he begins to practice his new signature in the margins of the paper. He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually…

— Adam Smith

Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

— William Shakespeare

If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

— William Easterly

“Thomas Malthus, was one of the first to analyze the relations between population growth and available resources. At the end of the eighteenth century,…

— David Christian

I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the…

— William Stanley Jevons

“It occurs once in every minute, Twice in every moment, And yet never in one hundred thousand years.   What is it?   It…

— C.L. Bevill

“and the number is six hundred and sixty-six,” that is, six times a hundred, six times ten, and six units. [He gives this] as…

— The Church Fathers

“annually. It will tell the investor how to use the data”

— Kenneth Eade

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

— Marcus Tullius Cicero