Through swimming, I wanted to reclaim our pride as Japanese people.

-- Hironoshin Furuhashi

I never learned math, so I had to think.

-- Joan Robinson

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. But in factories where labor-saving machinery has reached its most wonderful development, little children are at work.

-- Henry George

What has been done is little — I know — compared with what remains to be done.

-- Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg

Instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course to express my self in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure.

-- Born 1623

There is no way to make an accurate map except by walking and measuring.

-- Born in 1745 in Japan