"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."

-- Rudolph A. Marcus

#Math Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Years Quotes

“Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.”
“It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.”
“I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.”
“Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.157, Penguin
“Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.”
“A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?”
“Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.”
“On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.”

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