Margaret Wertheim Quotes

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.

Margaret Wertheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Joe Bob Briggs

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I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

John Candy

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Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Jennifer O'Neill

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For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.

Jeff Lemire

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My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

John Waters

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I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

Steve Scalise

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There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible, their reactions to it are very normal.

Joss Whedon

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Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Asif Ali Zardari

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In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Alice Waters

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

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I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

Paul Tagliabue

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I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

Tim Finchem

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