Quotes
Authors
Charles Seife

"Zero is powerful because it is infinityâ€™s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero â€“ and an infinity."

Source : Charles Seife (2000). “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, p.2, Penguin

Charles Seife

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“Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.84, Oxford University Press
“It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”
“My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.”
“You may have seen have seen me in such places as your local market in a tabloid.”
“My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.”
“Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well”
“You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.”
“I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...”

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