"I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region."

-- Oleg Deripaska

#Math Quotes #Winning Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.”
“Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.”

Source : Rupert Brooke, James Strachey, Keith Hale (1998). “Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914”, p.283, Yale University Press
“A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”

Source : James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.”
“The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.”

Source : "How modern should theology be?".
“I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.”
“There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.”
“It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.”

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