Incidents Quote by Tobias Dantzig Download Open image “Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?” — Tobias Dantzig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Incidents Income Mathematician Trouble
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society. — Ogyu Sorai Copy Share Image
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human perception and… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“The letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number of equivalent… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics,… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols or thought… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
“In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.” — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that… — Tom Kite Copy Share Image
And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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