"There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory"

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Source : Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 7: 2002-2013”, p.370, OUP Oxford

Michael Atiyah

#Cutting Quotes #Example Quotes #Theory Quotes

“Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.”
“The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.”
“The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.”
“Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.”
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”

Source : William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”
“Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.”
“I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.”
“I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.”

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