"We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!"

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Source : Harold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys (1999). “Methods of Mathematical Physics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

Harold Jeffreys

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“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
“Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.”

Source : "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul discuss their cutthroat relationship on 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Glenn Whipp, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2010.
“Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.”
“When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different. And I felt out of place -- too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And, then one day I realized something, something that I hope you all realize: Different is good.”

Source : Angelina Jolie's speech at the Kids' Choice Awards, time.com. March 29, 2015.
“There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.”
“I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.”
“In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.”

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