Quotes About Logarithms

#1. I say, gentlemen, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Nothing, I have decided, could waste precious life more than trigonometry and logarithms.

Morrissey

#3. You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#4. 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

#5. Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling at x miles per hour at a descension rate of one half the speed of gravity. Solve for x.

Andrew Sturm

#6. ...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.

{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.}

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#7. If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.

Anna Julia Cooper

#8. You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

Molly Ivins

#9. I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.

William Avery

#10. It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

David Lloyd

#11. Blessings on him, who invented sleep.

Miguel De Cervantes

#12. Belen shrugs. "It's a perfect plan."
"As easy as falling in love," Mara adds.
"Foolproof," Hector agrees.
I don't deserve such friends. I blink against the sting of threatening tears and say, "All you Joyans are filthy liars.

Rae Carson

#13. I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it.

Amber Tamblyn

#14. You are a unique person so get busy creating your unique position in this world.

Debasish Mridha

#15. No-one loves another
More than he loves whatever
another within may have
That is part of one's self

Fernando Pessoa

#16. I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

Mercedes McCambridge

#17. It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.

Jennifer E. Smith

#18. There's got to be some scientific study somewhere that proves your boyfriend's sweater will keep you warmer and cure you of any illnesses a lot faster, than some Pottery Barn blanket.

Adam Silvera

#19. A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

Atle Selberg

#20. If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

Guy Steele