Most of them just don't want to take math and geometry and the other courses to get a degree. They want to learn to build boots and saddles and go home.

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.