"There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science."

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Source : "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“Worry is a complete circle of inefficient thought whirling about a pivot of fear. To avoid it, consider whether the problem in hand is your business. If it is not, turn to something that is. If it is your business, decide if it is your business now. If so, decide what is best to be done about it. If you know, get busy. If you don't know, find out promptly. Do these things; then rest your case on the determination that, no matter how hard things may turn out to be, you will amek the best of them - and more than that no man can do. Dr. Austen Fox Riggs”
“Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.”
“The universal view melts things into a blur.”
“As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.”
“Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.”
“Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.”
“What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.30, Canongate Books

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