"A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it."

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Virgil Thomson

#Men Quotes #Accepted Quotes #Should Quotes

“Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.”
“Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want”
“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
“I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.”
“Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does PoincarÃ©, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.”

Source : "Grundlagen der Mathematik". Book by David Hilbert, 1927.
“I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com
“Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.”
“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.”

Source : 'A Spanish Drama' ch. 2

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