"A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician."

-- Brahmagupta

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“That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.”
“Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.”
“If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.”
“While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.”
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

Source : Jane Austen (2013). “Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition”, p.141, Harvard University Press
“The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.”
“Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.”
“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

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