Steven Strogatz Quotes
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
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If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
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That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.
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What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?
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She dove as well as she's been diving all year, but the competition was definitely the toughest she's seen, and that's how it should be. I was just very pleased with how well she did.
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I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.
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It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.
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In general, Gazprom is doing well and is increasing export in its traditional partner countries.
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Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
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Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.
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The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.
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Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.
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When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.
