#mati

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#best #clearly #conclusion #did #finally

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. ↗

— James Newman

#compares #does #doing #else #groups

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock. ↗

— Don Nickles

#biggest #buying #companies #date #doing

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent. ↗

— Arthur C. Nielsen

#confidential #consent #information #keep #only

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids' plates. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#dietary #find #hard #information #kids

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#art #art form #entertainment #form #i

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. ↗

— William Osler

#greater #ignorance

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you. ↗

— Gary Ross

#again #animation #anybody #book #classic