"If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that no mathematician of any age or country has ever surpassed Gauss in the combination of an abundant fertility of invention with an absolute vigorousness in demonstration..."

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Source : Henry John Stephen Smith (1965). “Collected Mathematical Papers”, p.74, American Mathematical Soc.

Henry John Stephen Smith

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“On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.”
“People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”
“Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.”
“I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.122, Petrarca Press
“Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.”
“for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.”

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