"Iâ€™m a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it."

-- Ann M. Dibb

“An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.”
“A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.”
“There are always two or three or four sides to every story.”
“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
“My secrets must be poetic to be believable.”
“Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.”
“Our eyes continue to see for a few nanoseconds an image that is not there anymore, which helps the brain to make sense of the flow of information it catches. Maybe that's what's happening to some entrepreneurs and VCs who have not yet grasped all the essential changes that have been happening in the French environment, and are seeing it as it used to be rather than as it is now! Today's France is business-friendly.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”

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