"As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential calculus and felt more keenly than ever before the lack of a really scientific foundation for arithmetic."

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Source : Richard Dedekind (1901). “Essays on the Theory of Numbers: I. Continuity and Irrational Numbers, II. The Nature and Meaning of Numbers”

Richard Dedekind

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“I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.”
“I dwell no more in Arcady, But when the sky is blue with May, And birds are blithe and winds are free, I know what message is for me, For I have been in Arcady.”

Source : Louise Chandler Moulton (1908). “The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...”
“In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.”
“All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”
“I really like to know people from a lot of places. It's like the world is a really big city that you just keep meeting other people that you've met in different cities before. It's quite crazy, but it's quite nice.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything”

Source : Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.157, New York Review of Books
“I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.”
“After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.”

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