"As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what this means. When you look at the shape of the sun and the moon, they're circles, so every time you see a circular thing, there's pi embedded in it."

-- Margaret Wertheim

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“You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.”
“Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.”
“I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.”

Source : "Spanish staying power". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2008.
“We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk about Asperger's as high-functioning autism, which I think it is. But it does have some of its own characteristics, like the preservation of language, particularly, which may be right brain dysfunction instead of left brain dysfunction, and we lose something in that, as things lose their specificity, and we keep diluting things. I'm not sure that's helpful.”
“If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.”
“My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.”
“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”
“Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us?Â It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.”

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