Arthur Porges Quotes
"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."
Quotes to Explore
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
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Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
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Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
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Don't be concerned who is watching you. The triumphs and merits of others belong to them - as do yours to you. Make the most of what you've got.
