Daniel Shanks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
How long before my dignity is reclaimed?
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
What Iâ€™ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. Youâ€™ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

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