Steven Strogatz Quotes
In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.
Steven Strogatz
Quotes to Explore
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Fear of women love more than hate the man.
Socrates
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When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
Plutarch
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Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
William Shakespeare
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Willard Scott
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A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.
William Petersen
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
Hippolyte Taine