Quotes
Authors
Robert Aris Willmott
"The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends." --
Robert Aris Willmott
#Men Quotes
#Curves Quotes
#Water Quotes
“I've always been able to survive by writing, though.”
“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.”
“The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.”
“Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.”
“I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.”
Source : Interview with Paul Bocchini, www.ultimatedallas.com.
“Every time I get an opponent - I mean, every time I get a chance - I'm home.”
Source : "The eight biggest campaign gaffes". thehill.com. September 5, 2014.
“Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced by the "logic piano" imagined by Stanley Jevons; or, if you choose, a machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.”
“There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.”