"For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear."

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Source : "A method for finding curved lines enjoying properties of maximum or minimum, or solution of isoperimetric problems in the broadest accepted sense". Book by Leonhard Euler, 1744.

Leonhard Euler

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“If no words come, you can always give him the finger.”
“Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan
“Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.”
“A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?”

Source : Harvey Fierstein (1987). “Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex”, Atheneum Books
“Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.”
“Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.”

Source : Langdon Gilkey, Langdon Brown Gilkey (1985). “Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock”, p.11, University of Virginia Press
“But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.”

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