Conic Quotes

#1. Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

Arthur Koestler

#3. If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

Glenn Hoddle

#4. Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#5. My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

Robin Ince

#6. A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Wendell Berry

#7. Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children.

Robin Hobb

#8. Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

Richard Dawkins

#9. Even when I try to be good, I am bad. Even when I try to do right by you, I only hurt you. [ ... ] Even when I try to create, I destroy.

Nina G. Jones

#10. There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

Robert Breault

#11. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer