Arthur Cayley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

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