"It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination."

-- Havelock Ellis

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“This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].”
“Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.”
“I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.”
“You wouldn't believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover. You wouldn't believe this, or directors of the AMA, or ACA, or the presidents of orthodox cancer institutes. That's the fact”
“The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.”
“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
“In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.”
“Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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