"I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn."

-- Archimedes

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“Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”
“Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.”
“A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.”
“As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is an automatic, unintentional form of behavior on the subpersonal level.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.”
“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”
“I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner.”
“And charge it please.”

Source : Kay Thompson (2011). “Eloise in Paris: with audio recording”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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