Marston Morse famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
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I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.
-- Marston Morse
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
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There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
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No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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