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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• 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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• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

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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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• I did every sport under the sun while growing up.

  

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• In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

  

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• This is for my peoples who just lost somebody,your best friend, your baby, your man or your lady,put your hand way up high,we will never say bye,mamas, daddies, sisters, brothers, friends and cousins,this is for my peoples who lost their grandmothers,lift your head to the sky,cause we will never say bye.

  

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• Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

  

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  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Knowing

• 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