"Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern."

-- Lynn Steen

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“Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.”
“In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.”
“There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.”
“Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.”
“If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”
“I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.”
“Of all the facts I daily live with, there's none more comforting than this; If I have two rooms, one dark, the other light, and I open the door between them, the dark room becomes lighter without the light one becoming darker. I know this is no headline, but it's a marvelous footnote; and comforts me in that.”
“There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.”

Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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