"Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results."

-- Thomas Little Heath

#Letters Quotes #Results Quotes #Investigation Quotes

“If you donâ€™t say what youâ€™re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.”
“One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.”
“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
“Restaurants are like having children: its fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.”
“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

Source : "Standing by Words: Essays". Book by Wendell Berry, 2011.
“What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are”
“Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.”

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