"The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not."

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Source : "Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", Vol. 42, (p. 467), 1890.

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

#Effort Quotes #Statistics Quotes #Taste Quotes

“And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.”
“Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.”
“Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.”

Source : "Life, but not as we know it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2010.
“You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.”

Source : "Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies" by Richard F. Shepard, New York Times, January 23, 1990.
“Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...”

Source : Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.124, Broadview Press
“Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.”

Source : "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.
“Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.”
“If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.”

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