"To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess."

-- Paul Halmos

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“Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.”

Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.”
“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”
“What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.”
“I been stackin up like I'm fundraisin”
“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.”
“When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
“I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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