"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."

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Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.

Andrew Wiles

#Library Quotes #Problem Quotes #Found Quotes

“No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.”
“Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.”
“I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.”
“You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.”
“Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”
“Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.”
“I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.”
“The great mystery of life is the length of it.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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