#Intuition Quotes #Mathematical Quotes
“My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.”
“How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.”
Source : Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.26, New Directions Publishing
“This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.”
“Tomorrow never really comes, so todays performance is what really counts.”
“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”
Source : "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
“Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.”
“Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.”
“People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live?”
Hermann Minkowski Mathematician
