"Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations."

-- Hermann Weyl

#Lasts Quotes #Mathematics Quotes

“Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.”
“I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.”
“It's OK to wear the same thing every day.”

Source : Suzy Becker (2007). “All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat: And Then Some”, Workman Publishing
“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.”
“The subjectâ€™s pulse increased on contact,â€ he said. â€œDonâ€™t write that.”
“What I try to do is to make your face look like it did when you were younger. I always tell people it's not just about filling in the lines, but re-creating the shape of your face as it was in your early- or mid-twenties. People see the lines as they age but they don't see how their shape is changing. I think it's all about restoring the contours. You can fill in a line and it makes you look a little better, but it doesn't make you look younger.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”

Source : Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198
“And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe”

Source : "Ring Around the Sun". Book by Clifford D. Simak, 1953.

You may also like:

Bernhard Riemann
Mathematician
David Hilbert
Mathematician
Eugene Wigner
Physicist
Henri Poincare
Mathematician
Hermann Minkowski
Mathematician
John von Neumann
Mathematician
Paul Dirac
Physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Physicist
Wolfgang Pauli
Physicist