"Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all."

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Source : "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

Martin Gardner

#Queens Quotes #Kings Quotes #School Quotes

“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”

Source : Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.11, HarperCollins
“It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.”
“You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.”
“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime”
“Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.”

Source : "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.
“But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.Â They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies.Â If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.Â Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it?Â And yet --!”
“I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.”
“I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.”

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