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Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us would make four times the noise he will," Halt said. Horace frowned, not quite understanding the equation. "Wouldn't three of us make three times the noise?" Halt shook his head. "Will and Tug will make hardly any noise. Neither will Abelard and I. But as for you and that moving earthquake you call a horse..." He gestured at Kicker and left the rest unsaid.

John Flanagan

Horse, Moving, Sight

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I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Mark Cuban

Resilience, Failing, Ifs

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The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Nikola Tesla

Reality, Thinking, Insane

"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934.

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You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

Delphine de Vigan

Real, Lines, Draws

Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.67, A&C Black

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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF" - then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.

Michio Kaku

Past, Law, Civilization

"Borrowed Time". Interview with J.R. Minkel, www.scientificamerican.com. November 24, 2003.

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Here's an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life: CZ = WZ. It means your "comfort zone" equals your "wealth zone." By expanding your comfort zone, you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone.

T. Harv Eker

Mean, Secret, Comfort

FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 20, 2013

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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.

Clifford Truesdell

Funny, Fear, Science

Clifford Truesdell (1966). “Six lectures on modern natural philosophy”, Springer

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It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Neal Stephenson

Design, Principles, Use

Neal Stephenson (2012). “Cryptonomicon”, p.488, Random House

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Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws

Dean Kamen

Real, Men, Law

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An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

Michelle Obama

Art, Children, Educational

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Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.

Lester Thurow

Thinking, May, Facts

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The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

Leon M. Lederman

Real, Science, Goal

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What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

David Ruelle

Baby, Science, Finding Yourself

David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press

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It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

Philip Emeagwali

Mathematical Equations, Technique, Algorithms

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The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry.

Jonathan Evison

Writing, Character, Math

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That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the equation. It’s an interaction between you and the person who’s going to experience the work. The person who’s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are.

Austin Kleon

Art, Important, Half

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A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

Bill Gaede

Believe, Mercury, Speed

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Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

Tim Tharp

Mean, Color, Textbooks

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

Dog, Jobs, Wind

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I don't see the script as just a springboard for my interpretation. You do your best to serve the vision writers have - not by removing yourself from the equation, but by trying to filter what they intended through your artistry.

Joe Mantello

Vision, Trying, Filters

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Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.

Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Simple, Two, Numbers

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On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

Albert Einstein

Hands, Left Hand, Add

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As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

Huston Smith

Years, Two, Religion

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The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are as great an addition to the world as Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, and subtracting you from the cosmic equation would be just as great a loss. The most exquisite silk remains intact if you pull out a thread, but the snag will show.

Deepak Chopra

Mother, Loss, Perspective

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Architecture
is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
beautiful context for life's drama.

Frank Gehry

Beautiful, Drama, Believe

Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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