68 Quotes About Maths


  • Author Brian Chistian
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    La religion est un moyen efficace de modifier la structure des jeux de ce type. [...] Dieu est peut-être encore plus efficace qu'un gouvernement à cet égard, puisque son omniscience et omnipotence apportent une garantie très forte que les mauvaises actions vaudront des sanctions sévères à leurs auteurs. Dieu est le parrain absolu

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  • Author Matt Parker
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    Million, billion, and trillion are each a thousand times bigger than each other. A million seconds is roughly a third of a month, so a billion seconds is on the order of 330 (a third of a thousand) months. And if a billion is around 31 years, then of course a trillion is around 31,000 years.

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  • Author Kate Grenville
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    Man had been given a brain that could think in numbers, and it could not be coincidence that the world was unlocked by that very tool. To understand any aspect of the cosmos was to look on the face of God: not directly, but by a species of triangulation, because to think mathematically was to feel the action of God in oneself.

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