Paul Erdos Quotes

Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

Paul Erdos

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• Chinese people age overnight.

  

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• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

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• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

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• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

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• We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

  

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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

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• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

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• The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

  

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• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

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• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

  

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• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

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  • Love
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• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

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• It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

  

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• It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

  

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• In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

  

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• I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

  

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• Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

  

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• Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Beautiful
  • Education
  • Numbers