Best twenties & science Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.”

Years Humans Mean Made Science Five Food Goes On Industry Circumstances Increase Twenties Faster Five Years Twenty Five Ratios Subsistence

Author:Thomas Malthus

“One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.”

Ifs Able Science Girl Twenties Math Fifty

Author:Maxim Gorky

“A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth.”

Earth Science Four Universal Twenties Mathematics Fundamentals Features Mathematician Units Correspondence

Author:Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

“Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?”

Years Science Language Periods Thousand Six Hundred Twenties Mathematics Income Titles Copies Steady Display Fifteen Outlines Linear Annuals Algebra Fifteen Years

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate.”

Way Firsts Spiritual Science Force Century Demand Perception Twenties Spheres Sensory Precedence Physical Force Spiritual Gifts Sensory Perception

Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis

“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?”

“Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.”

Should Firsts Science Fun Force Century Duty Taste Twenties Throat Drag Kicking

Author:George Porter

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

Men Way Years May Has Beens Book Running Science Race Half Century Twenties Victim Blow Ink Exploding Handicapped Gunpowder Printer Running Race

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).”

Trying Firsts Believe Law Science Social Window Twenties Mere Physics Conventions Apartment Invited Laws Of Physics

Book:Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture

Source: Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture

“An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections

“No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.”

“The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.”

Ifs Life Littles Has Beens Age Science Work Five Hard Work Twenties Mathematics Math Mathematical Accomplishment Thirty Accomplished Mathematician Twenty Five

Author:Alfred Adler

“[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.”

Years Science Wish Fate Cry Hard Work Ten Accounts Twenties Raises Fulfillment Realms Fifty Obsolete Very Mean

Book:The Vocation Lectures

Source: The Vocation Lectures

“Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.”

Writing Science Hours Four Hard Work Exercise Twenties Spending Amusement Newton Eighteen Nineteen Incessantly

Book:A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Source: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

“When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.”

Years Age Lasts Science Father Twenties Seven Amazed Seven Years Twenty One Fourteen Unintelligent Astounded

Author:Mark Twain

“I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.”

Science Death President Break Millions Hair Ten Twenties

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.”

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”

Men Giving Littles Lasts Science Poor Millions Sky Mankind Rocks Moon Office Twenties Dollars Billions Miles Flight Thirty Aviation Chemicals Quarters Metals Agony Magnificent Wire

Author:Russell Baker

“Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.”

Source: Game Management 118

“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.”

Ifs Giving Should May Doe Enough Facts Seems Science Lines Levels Results Failing Lows Draws Standards Hundred Twenties Experiments Fifty Significance Statistics Cents Odds Scientific Facts

Author:Ronald Fisher

“We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.”

Way Mind Humans Two Different Sometimes Science Choices Situation Ten Twenties Dancing Bounds Lifts Different Ways Finest Selection Richness

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.”

“Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.”

Firsts Science Found Stars Hours Position Planets Succeed Letters Twenties Observation Excellent Collections Maps Quests Drs Royal Academy Berlin Magnitude Containing Neptune

Author:Johann Gottfried Galle

“In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.”

Facts Helping Shows Science Used Walks Theory Ten Discovery Twenties Thirty Chemistry Crutches

Author:Jean-Baptiste Dumas

“When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.”

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