"If equations are trains threading the landscape of……" — Richard Preston

"If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi."

— Richard Preston

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16 Quotes by Richard Preston

Richard Preston has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade…
You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes…
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of…
The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an…
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The…
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with…
Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are…
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into…
He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

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More Equations Quotes

This quote is filed under Equations Quotes, one of 308 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in… — Jello Biafra
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect… — Max Born
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. — Madeleine Albright
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. — Nick Cave
The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work… — Damon Hill
Even Republicans seem to think that these undocumented Democrats could be made [GOP] voters...and what happens is that two out… — Steve King
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the… — Albert Einstein
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can… — George Perkins Marsh
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to… — Maurice Ravel
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation… — James Clerk Maxwell
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but… — Paul Dirac

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