"The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

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“At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”
“The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.”
“The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot.”

Source : James Jeans, Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1981). “Physics and Philosophy”, p.216, Courier Corporation
“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.”

Source : Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.148, Vintage
“O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.”
“I like form and shape and strength in pictures.”
“Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.”

Source : Maurice George Kendall, Alan Stuart (1977). “The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Distribution theory”, Hafner Press
“There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.”

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