"Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today."

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Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1939). “Men can take it”

Elizabeth Hawes

#Change Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
“With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.”
“I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.”
“Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.”
“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.”
“I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.”
“Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.”
“The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find its final solution nor even whether a final objective answer can be expected at all. "Mathematizing" may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality, whose historical decisions defy complete objective rationalization.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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