Top 32 Quotes About Paulos
#1. A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#2. Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.
Sue Bender
#3. The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].
John Allen Paulos
#4. The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.
Bob Sorge
#7. I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as "historical factorials." Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as present-day Myrtle but as the product of all her past experiences.
John Allen Paulos
#8. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos
#9. The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column seem factual by comparison.
John Allen Paulos
#10. The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.
George Carlin
#11. One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
outwitting the market.
John Allen Paulos
#12. You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in.
Wally Lamb
#13. We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems ... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.
John Allen Paulos
#14. There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.
John Allen Paulos
#15. Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection
John Allen Paulos
#16. The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
John Allen Paulos
#17. My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.
Brendon Urie
#18. Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."
John Allen Paulos
#19. When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.
John Allen Paulos
#20. There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.
H.L. Mencken
#21. In the stock market ... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
John Allen Paulos
#23. The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.
John Allen Paulos
#24. In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.
John Allen Paulos
#25. For example, knowing that it takes only about eleven and a half days for a million seconds to tick away, whereas almost thirty-two years are required for a billion seconds to pass, gives one a better grasp of the relative magnitudes of these two common numbers.
John Allen Paulos
#26. Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.
John Allen Paulos
#27. The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.
John Allen Paulos
#28. So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.
John Allen Paulos
#29. The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
John Allen Paulos
#30. How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?
John Allen Paulos
#31. Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?
Tony Iommi
#32. My heart is properly cultivated ... and is not left to wither under the burden of cold erudition, and my religious feelings are not deadened by theological inquiries.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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