Math Quotes - Page 40

• Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you about. You look and it and you think, 'I trust this series. I would take candy from this series. I would get in a car with this series.' But I'm going to warn you, this series is out to get you. Always remember: The harmonic series diverges. Never forget it."

  Alexandre Borovik

  Education, Thinking, Car

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• It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves.

  Proclus

  Life, Taken, Men

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• Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

  Mike Norton

  Dream, Art, Love Is

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• It was gonna be a race [2016] that set a foundation for the Left in the future. But given the math, I didn't think he was gonna make it. And so I started to shift to Hillary [Clinton] and to discussions of the platform and discussions of what to do.

  Tom Hayden

  Thinking, Race, Foundation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  June, July, Focus

  Source: www.slate.com

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• There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that".

  James Pearse Connelly

  Fun, Crazy, School

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Kentucky

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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• When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.

  Casey Affleck

  People, Guy, Dumb

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Program, Geometry

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• There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

  Amanda Palmer

  Simple, Despair, Fundamentals

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

  Adam Richman

  Drama, Yale, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Inspirational, Poetry, Geometry

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• One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which he can boast the universal adoption of the Hindu-Arabic numerals to record numbers. In this we perhaps have man's unique worldwide victory of an idea.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Men, Thinking, Unique

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• When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Children, Struggle

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing in Guapo.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Rocks, Years, Scene

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  Ian Bogost

  Art, Crazy, Kids

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I went away to this summer program after my junior year of high school. They used to have this thing called the Governor's School, and they had it for different disciplines - science, math, performing arts. I auditioned and I got accepted, and it was an eight-week program away from home. I went for acting. I was 15, and I turned 16 while I was there, so that was a seminal moment for me. It made me realize the life of it, the discipline of it, and the joy of that discipline, where it was all we did.

  Zachary Quinto

  Summer, Art, Home

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I was just kind of doing the math.

  Clayton Kershaw

  Kind

  Source: m.mlb.com

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• I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for education and encouraged me as a child when I had strong interests in both math and science, but we really didn't have much by way of educational role modeling in our family.

  Dale Jamieson

  Strong, Children, Educational

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.

  Dale Jamieson

  Religious, Home, School

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything else involves some "perturbation." This is a mental model, a conceptual frame, a tacit belief, a presupposition - whatever you want to call it.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophy, Everyday, Want

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Assuming

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.

  Caleb Shomo

  Song, Writing, Records

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Novelists, Brilliant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.

  Jon Spaihts

  Writing, College, Needs

  Source: www.mtv.com

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