"I regard it as an inelegance, or imperfection, in quaternions, or rather in the state to which it has been hitherto unfolded, whenever it becomes or seems to become necessary to have recourse to x, y, z, etc.."

-- William Rowan Hamilton

#Imperfection Quotes #Etc Quotes #States Quotes

“These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.”
“One is born to be a great dancer.”
“With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?”
“There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person.”
“Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?”
“Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.”

Source : Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons
“I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.”
“People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.”

You may also like:

Arthur Cayley
Mathematician
Augustus De Morgan
Mathematician
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Mathematician
J. Willard Gibbs
Scientist
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
Peter Tait
Physicist
William Kingdon Clifford
Mathematician
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Mathematician