Mathematical Literacy Quotes

#1. A sage traveling all day
is never far from the supplies in his cart,
and however spectacular the views
he remains calm and composed.

Lao-Tzu

#2. I thank the Lord for having the kind of a career that doesn't happen very often to an individual. A lot of times when I was playing, I pinched myself to see if it was really me and if it was really happening. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything.

Lou Boudreau

#3. We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.

Barry Goldwater

#4. No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.

Edward Coke

#5. She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Terry Pratchett

#6. A minute, an hour, a lifetime-- there is no time, there are no things. I have no more Things. I have only scraping metal, creaming voices, and death

David Arnold

#7. As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

Henry Petroski

#8. I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.

Neal Stephenson

#9. No one could have nicer sisters. No sibling problems there.

Henry Fonda

#10. It is all but inevitable that we occupy a favoured location, one of the rare neighbourhoods where by-laws allow the emergence of intelligent life.' No anthropic principle needed.

Matt Ridley