Claude Fayette Bragdon famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."
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The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
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With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
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One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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