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“When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.”
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“The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.”
Source : David Berlinski (2011). “A Tour of the Calculus”, p.119, Vintage
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“Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.”
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“I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!”
Source : Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”
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“In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.”
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“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
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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.”
Source : Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag
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“You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.”
Source : Myles Horton (2003). “The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change”, p.122, Univ. of Tennessee Press
