"...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis."

-- Ian Stewart

#Beauty Quotes #Art Quotes #Block Quotes

“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.”
“We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.”
“Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.”

Source : "Song: 'Midnight' ('The Poets And The Prophet')". 2005.
“I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.”
“I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.”
“[N]o one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.”

Source : Tape released after the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, www.nixonlibrary.gov. January 23, 1973.
“Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.”
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasnâ€™t planned; it was realism.”

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