A Quote by Eric Temple Bell

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Eric Temple Bell

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Boys Cover Easily Geometry Other Pirate Read Yarn

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Eric Temple Bell
Scottish - Mathematician
February 7, 1883 - December 21, 1960

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

Joe R. Lansdale

My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from cover to cover when I was eight.

Anne Hegerty

The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

Bill Gates

Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world.

Robert Eggers

The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.

Pete Rose

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

Micky Dolenz

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Leonard Cohen

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

Trai Byers

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Billy Bob Thornton

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

Bill Nye

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Abraham Pais

Imagine a music business where all the music press talked about, all day long, was cover bands of old rock and pop groups. Beatles cover bands, Rolling Stones cover bands, The Who cover bands, Led Zeppelin cover bands. Cover bands, cover bands, everywhere you go.

Antony Johnston

We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way.