"It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover."

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Source : Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.139, Basic Books

Edward Frenkel

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“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging”
“Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.”
“Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 11, 2006.
“If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.”

Source : "Tom Hardy Interview For ‘Warrior’". budomate.com. 2011.
“Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.”
“One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.”
“For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.”
“If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.”

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