Idioms Quote by RK Narayan

Most people thought Gomer was stupid, dumb, a real klutz. But you study him, he really wasn't any of those things. Gomer just didn't…

— Jim Nabors

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

— Richard Overy

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or…

— W. H. Auden

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of…

— Mary Augusta Ward

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of the poet,…

— Zhang Yungi

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

— Margot Asquith

“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction.…

— Goro Shimura

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

— Thomas Carlyle

“I told her that being a bench worker and an electrician had taught me the value of math while leading me to the conclusion…

— Lu Nei

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes,…

— Anonymous

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider…

— Raoul Bott