"Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language."

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Source : Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.41, Harvard University Press

Ernst Mayr

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“God is not about using the mighty but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who prepared to lay their lives down to him. God is not looking for extraordinary, exceptionally gifted people, just laid down lovers of Jesus who will carry his glory with transparency and not take it for themselves”

Source : Heidi Baker, Rolland Baker (2014). “Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love”, p.62, Chosen Books
“The journey is more important than where you end up.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011
“Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.
“In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone elseâ€™s mother was staying at home.”
“I want to feel secure personally. Have a competitive team out there -- I really want to win; I hate losing -- and, I guess, I want to be treated like a normal person.”
“I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.”

Source : "Annalena McAfee: 'I see myself as a recovering journalist'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.
“I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.”
“Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just that he doesn't want to play by anybody else's rules. This idea that it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven is Satan's motto, and it turns out that this is also the motto of contemporary atheists such as Christopher Hitchens.”

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