"Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology."

-- Israel Gelfand

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“I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.”

Source : Source: blog.noisetrade.com
“This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.”

Source : "Kenyon's talk is cheap but Chelsea's big ideas need more than money" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2006.
“I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.”

Source : "Rowan Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.
“I really like The Dudleyz' new attire. It has that whole Bushwhackers 2000 feel.”
“Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.”
“Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.”
“Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.”

Source : "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.
“A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.”

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