"And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?"

-- George Berkeley

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“Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
“If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.”
“Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament". genius.com. January 1, 2002.
“Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.”
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”

Source : 1945 English Cricket.
“The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.”
“It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.”
“It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.”

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