Greatest Mathematician Quotes

#1. Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.

William Poundstone

#2. I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

Graham Moore

#3. The desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.

Tariq Ramadan

#4. Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

Marlon Riggs

#5. A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars.

James Joyce

#6. Artists need to express.

Bebe Neuwirth

#7. People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Socialism is always wrong.

George Ayittey

#9. America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.

Jackie Walorski

#10. I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

Bob Woodward

#11. the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.

Philip Yancey

#12. Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

Ken Blanchard

#13. The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises).

Rich Hall

#14. There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson