Home / Quotes / Quote by Herbert Hoover

Quote by Herbert Hoover

“Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.”

Quote by Herbert Hoover

Book:Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920

Work

Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920

Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920 is a collection of the author's reflections on their life journey, detailing significant events and personal anecdotes from the years 1874 to 1920. more

Author

Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, was born on August 10, 1874, and died on October 20, 1964. A distinguished engineer, businessman, and philanthropist, he served as the United States Secretary of Commerce and as the Director of the United States Food Administration during World War I. As President, Hoover implemented a series of policies aimed at alleviating the Great Depression, but his approach was widely criticized. more

You May Also Like

“Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?”

Life Persons Body Science Life Is Humanity Courses Lines Movement Materials Resistance Course Of Life

Book:Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

Source: Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.”

People Stills Light Today Effort Plans Logic Certainty Uncertainty Analysis Reasoning Immense Reign Obscurity Ontology Rigor

Author:Niels Henrik Abel

“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.”

“Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.”

Needs Doe Facts Use Logic Accounts Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Mathematician Ontology

Book:Physics

Source: Physics

“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”

Way Two Three Lines Logic Certainty One Way Uncertainty Planes Reasoning Two Ways Magnitude Ontology Three Ways

Author:Aristotle

“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.”

Ifs Knows Children Reason Facts Natural Wonder Too Much Higher Adults Logic Bravery Rate Cancer Cures Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Cynical Fearful Ontology Resigned

Author:Lance Armstrong

“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mind Book Running Jobs Certain Stuff Changed Prove Evidence Decided Logic Math Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Buddy Ontology Sloppy You Changed

Author:David Auburn

“Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.”

All Things Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Infinity Ontology

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.”

Stills Powerful Higher Tools Logic Remains Technique Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Most Powerful Ontology

Author:Thomas Banchoff

“Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.”

Firsts Reason Dream Today Interest Achieve Century Higher Majors First Time Direct Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visuals Dimensions Ancestor Ontology

Author:Thomas Banchoff