"If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi."

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Source : "The Mountains of Pi" by Richard Preston, www.newyorker.com. March 02, 1992.

Richard Preston

#Numbers Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Equations Quotes

“We love the night and it's quiet.”

Source : Fitz James O'Brien (1889). “What was It?: And Other Stories”
“One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown”
“I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.”
“Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.”
“the best committee's a committee of one!”

Source : Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers
“For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.”
“Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.”
“There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.”

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