"First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people."

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Source : "Comic Sections: Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.

Andre Weil

#People Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Mathematician Quotes

“But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.”
“Seven years I worked at the Polish deli. It's a very slow deli. So I sat around a lot on my stool at the cashier. And I'd sign my autograph on all the bags I'd put the milk in. Just everyday, practice my autograph. And the manager of the store would take some of them and tape them against the wall. And he'd say, "Some day, I'm telling you, it will be worth something." And I'm like 13, going, "Really?!" And when I go back there, he still has them on the wall. It's very cute.”
“A lot of pubs in London are now faceless, expensive yuppy bars. Not like when I was growing up. The pub used to be, and should be, the pillar of community.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.”
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”
“People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.”
“But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.”

Source : Joseph Needham (2013). “The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West”, p.176, Routledge
“Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.”

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