"It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together."

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Source : "Mathematics in the Modern World". Scientific American, Vol 211, (p. 42), September 1964.

Richard Courant

#Motivation Quotes #Essence Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.”
“It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.”
“I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.”
“Compassion is the litmus test.”
“Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.”

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“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”
“I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.”

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