"Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers."

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Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

Carl Eckart

#Numbers Quotes

“I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.”
“Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.”
“If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.”
“Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK
“You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.”
“You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.”
“When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage”
“There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.”

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