"It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts."

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Source : "Applied Analysis" by Cornelius Lanczos, Prentice-Hall, 1956.

Cornelius Lanczos

#Effort Quotes #Way Quotes #Details Quotes

“A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the worldâ€™s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.”
“I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education...”
“Well, I believe you created those experiences over and over because they mirrored something you believed about yourself. It doesn't really matter how long we have had a problem, or how big it is, or how life-threatening it is. The Point of Power Is Always in the Present Moment.”
“There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.”
“...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of ***** and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.”
“I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.”
“I am what I am, everything I wanna be”
“It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.”

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