Emile Borel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.
Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

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