"Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics."

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Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

Eric Temple Bell

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“I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .”
“There's only one growth strategy: work hard.”

Source : "Work harder, William Hague tells Britons". Interview with Patrick Hennessy, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 12, 2012.
“Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.”
“To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.”
“Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”
“Ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you”
“Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.”

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