"Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view."

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Source : "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.

David Hilbert

#Sad Quotes #Zero Quotes #Men Quotes

“Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.”
“In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.72, Crimeline
“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”
“I think careful cooking is love, don't you?”
“A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.”
“If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.”
“Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
“I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.”

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