"Nature imitates mathematics."

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Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.213, Springer Science & Business Media

Gian-Carlo Rota

#Mathematics Quotes

“Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.”
“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.”
“Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.”
“To have more than you've got, become more than you are.”
“It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.”
“The unspoken word never does harm.”
“I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.”
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 11, 2014

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