"True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter."

-- Richard Hamming

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“Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.”
“In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.124, Grove Press
“When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?”
“I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.”
“Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.”
“To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.”
“As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.”

Source : Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.
“Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.”

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