"The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors; who substituted in their room a severe subordination of rank and office, from the titled slaves who were seated on the steps of the throne, to the meanest instruments of arbitrary power."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.”
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”

Source : Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press
“What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?”
“There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.”
“I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.”
“I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.”
“It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.”
“The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.”

Source : George Sarton (1936). “The study of the history of mathematics and the study of the history of science”

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