Richard Courant famous quotes

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  • Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

  • In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

  • Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  • Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

  • Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

  • It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  • The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

  • Nobody listens to mathematicians.

  • Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

  • Mathematicians are born, not made.

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