Edward Charles Titchmarsh famous quotes

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Independent #Careers #Long

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Education #Would Be #Use

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Math #Logic #Mathematics

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Heart #Matter #Cases

There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as something in physical space but not the latter. Actually √-1 is a much simpler concept.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Thinking #Space #People

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Long #Mathematics #Proof

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.
-- Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#Attitude #Believe #Men

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.