Barriers Quote by Will Durant

“India had sent Adelaide—whose taste was impeachable—back to London to choose furniture from Thomas Sheraton’s and Jean-Henri Reisener’s showrooms.”

— Eloisa James

George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So…

— Red Buttons

It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better…

— David Elkind

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's…

— Bill Nye

Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn,…

— Richard Dawkins

Ten decimal places of π are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places…

— Simon Newcomb

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it is hard…

— Randall Jarrell

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows…

— Agatha Christie

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

— Nathan Seiberg

It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what…

— Henri Poincare

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and…

— John Tukey