21 Quotes by John Allen Paulos

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.

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.