<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117921" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Higher Mathematics</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twice one is two,<br>Twice two is four,<br>But twice two is ninety-six if you know the way to score.<br>Half of two is one,<br>Half of four is two,<br>But half of four is forty per cent. if your name is Montagu:<br>For everything else is on the square<br>If done by the best quadratics;<br>And nothing is low in High Finance<br>Or the Higher Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A straight line is straight<br>And a square mile is flat:<br>But you learn in trigonometrics a trick worth two of that.<br>Two straight lines<br>Can't enclose a Space,<br>But they can enclose a Corner to support the Chosen Race:<br>For you never know what Dynamics do<br>With the lower truths of Statics;<br>And half of two is a touring car<br>In the Higher Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a place apart<br>Beyond the solar ray,<br>Where parallel straight lines can meet in an unofficial way.<br>There is a room that holds<br>The examiner or his clerks,<br>Where you can square the circle or the man that gives the marks.<br>Where you hide in the cellar and then look down<br>On the poets that live in the attics;<br>For the whole of the house is upside down<br>In the Higher Mathematics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=G.K.+Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a> from <i>Songs of Education</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117921" data-title="The Higher Mathematics de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="Twice one is two,/Twice two is four,/But twice two is ninety-six if you know the way to score./Half of two is one,/Half of four is two,/But half of four is forty per cent. if your name is Montagu:/For everything else is on the square/If done by th..."></div> </div> </div>

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