"Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on."

-- Oliver Heaviside

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“He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.”
“I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lt. Commander Charles Edward Madison". "The Americanization of Emily", 1964.
“If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.”

Source : Lanford Wilson (1994). “Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.”
“The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.”
“Freedom is about stopping the past.”
“I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor
“The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.”

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