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Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.


Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

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DANIEL BOONE We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our d...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
DANIEL WEBSTER Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of...
DANIEL HANNAN But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companie...
DANIEL YERGIN But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a bu...
DANIEL YERGIN Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ...
DANIEL KEYES I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the ...
DANIEL GOLEMAN You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to...
DANIEL HANNAN The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is ...
DANIEL WEBSTER While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and...
DANIEL WEBSTER The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws ...
DANIEL WEBSTER The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the n...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally...
DANIEL WEBSTER He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
DANIEL WEBSTER If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples...
DANIEL WEBSTER Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may ta...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doi...
DANIEL WEBSTER He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touche...
DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
DANIEL WEBSTER Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commer...
DANIEL WEBSTER Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enr...
DANIEL WEBSTER We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
DANIEL WEBSTER It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
DANIEL WEBSTER