Top 28 Bernoulli's Quotes
#1. There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.
William Poundstone
#2. Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.
William Poundstone
#4. Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
Diana Wynne Jones
#5. It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
Jacob Bernoulli
#9. With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.
Tom Stoppard
#10. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#11. It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.
W.K. Marriott
#12. There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Daniel Bernoulli
#13. A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.
Johann Bernoulli
#14. It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Daniel Bernoulli
#15. Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.
Nita Leland
#16. I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.
Steve Forbert
#17. ...her tone more disapproving than dismayed.
Kim Edwards
#18. Amnesty International, which was opening its yearlong campaign to protect human rights defenders in Colombia in response to the country's horrifying record of attacks against human rights and labor activists and mostly the usual victims of state terror: the poor and defenseless.
Noam Chomsky
#19. The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."
Johann Bernoulli
#20. It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.
Ralph Royce
#21. All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.
Daniel Bernoulli
#22. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.
William Poundstone
#23. At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
William Lyon Phelps
#25. The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x ...
Gottfried Leibniz
#26. Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
And in the unlimited limits appear,
So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
And in the narrowest limits no limit in here.
What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!
Jacob Bernoulli
#27. Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.
Carl Jung
#28. But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.
Johann Bernoulli
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