"The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world."

-- Serge Lang

#Numbers Quotes #Goal Quotes #World Quotes

“To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.”
“The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.”

Source : Carl Hiaasen (2006). “Nature Girl”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.”

Source : Ben Sherwood (2004). “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud”, p.169, Bantam
“While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural background in a Third World country at a time when women were told what their place was and whose mothers enjoyed even less.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.”
“You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.”
“Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.”
“Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.”

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