#confuse

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. ↗

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

#amount #any #arid #arithmetic #confuse

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#austrian #confused #during #duty #find

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#ants #armies #beings #capture #ceaselessly

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. ↗

— Alice Walker

#confused #government #movements #much #now

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#confused #fear #greatness #i #power

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #confuses #create #desire #enemy

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand. ↗

— Alice Walker

#confuses #different #different points #directions #getting

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#championship #confuse #major #people #winning

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at. ↗

— Frederick Wiseman

#because #century #confuse #documentaries #everybody

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#foolish #got #government #greece #hands