"To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship..."

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Source : Srinivasa Ramanujan (2015). “Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

Srinivasa Ramanujan

#Food Quotes #Science Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.360, Applewood Books
“Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.”
“I got bloopers, loopers and droppers. I got a jump ball, a be ball, a screw ball, a wobbly ball, a whipsy-dipsy-do, a hurry-up ball, a nothin' ball and a bat dodger. My be ball is a be ball 'cause it 'be' right were I want it, high and inside. It wiggles like a worm. Some I throw with my knuckles, some with two fingers. My whips-dipsy-do is a special fork ball I throw underhand and sidearm that slithers and sinks. I keep my thumb off the ball and use three fingers. The middle finger sticks up high, like a bent fork.”
“My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.”
“Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.”
“I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.”
“Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.”
“You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.”

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