"... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession."

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Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Riemanns geometrische Ideen, ihre Auswirkung und ihre Verknüpfung mit der Gruppentheorie”, p.44, Springer-Verlag

Hermann Weyl

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“I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.”
“I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements.”
“It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.”
“I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.”

Source : "Explaining Russell Crowe". Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 02, 2006.
“If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.”
“I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.”
“I'm such a believer in going to set, even when you're not work because I think the best things to be learned, you don't necessarily get from your own scene or from someone speaking to you and telling you advice. I think it's all about watching and just taking it all in. It's not even when the cameras are rolling, necessarily. You can see how they interact with the rest of the crew, and how they deal with being a character and then being themselves.”

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