"Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone."

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Source : Quoted in Alexander Macfarlane, Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (1916). "Pure mathematics; may it never be of use to any man!" is cited as the toast of the Mathematical Society of England in Science, 10 Dec. 1886.

Henry John Stephen Smith

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“There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.”

Source : Jack D. Schwager (2012). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons
“I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.”
“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.”
“All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.”
“Only the poor can create art.”

Source : Speech at a public forum held at the Los Angeles Public Library, April 28, 2010.
“Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.”
“The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.”
“Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.”

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