"I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical."

-- Johannes Kepler

#Fall Quotes #Reading Quotes #Science Quotes

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.”
“My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.”
“I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.”
“In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.”

Source : "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.
“That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.”
“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.2, Psychology Press
“There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.”
“A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.”

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