"When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard, and the third one just to absorb. In my case, I never showed up to the latter class, taught by Robert Gunning, on Several Complex Variables. Several Complex Variables (Cn) was starting to get vary fashionable then, but I decided to specialize in n=1/2."

-- Richard Askey

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“When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.”
“I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.”
“Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.”
“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.”
“as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?”
“To be well in your mind you have first to be free.”
“It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.”

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