"Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?"

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Source : "Oliver Heaviside (1850-1927) — Physical Mathematician" by D.A. Edge. Teaching mathematics and its applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 55-61, 1983.

Oliver Heaviside

#Two Quotes #Inquiry Quotes #Digestion Quotes

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
“Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.”
“Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.”

Source : Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.139, Hal Leonard Corporation
“I think that feeling of reward comes from being able to find sometimes an unexpected reflection or insight that seems to transcend the description itself, where you actually realize you're concluding something that is a point of view, that may come across and actually touch people's conscience or minds in a way that could change, at least if not things, change points of view.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Bouldering is like masturbation: not as good as the real thing but you don't need to worry about your protection.”
“A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
“Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.”
“All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.”

Source : "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.

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