"It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity."

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Source : "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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“The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight”
“Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.”
“You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.”
“What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
“The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.”

Source : Judith Rich Harris (1999). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.”

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