Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;â€¦ so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.
-- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi famous quotes

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