"The library is the mathematician's laboratory."

-- Paul Halmos

#Library Quotes #Laboratory Quotes

“I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.”
“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”

Source : Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.227, Penguin
“Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.”
“It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.”

Source : "American boys at the ready" by Will Buckley, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2001.
“The demon that you can swallow gives you itâ€™s power, and the greater lifeâ€™s pain, the greater lifeâ€™s reply.”
“It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.”
“I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.”
“. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.”

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