William Thurston Quotes

Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.

William Thurston

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• Argument
• Mathematical
• Scholarship
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• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Pure
  • Syrup
  • Maple

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Old
  • Just
  • Detroit

• Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

  

  Wallace Stevens

• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Player
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• Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cold

• Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, you can go crazy too.Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, I wanna go crazy with you.Everybody sayin' 'Woah, how sweet it is. Woah.'Yeah, it felt good on my lips.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Good
  • Crazy
  • Sweet

• Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Writing

• I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Hope

• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life

• I figure it's a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal - that's my afternoon snack, or I do it before dinner.

  

  Andrew Luck

• I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

  

  Maud Welzen

• I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Life

• I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Help
  • Angry
  • Confused

• My music is about love, and I don't discriminate against any type of person.

  

  James Arthur
  • Music

• Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

  

  Kay Granger
  • Life

• Even the oil companies don't need an incentive of $4 billion to go out and explore. As my grandpop would say, 'They’re doing just fine, thank you'.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Explore

• Man is forgiven who believes more than his neighbours, but he is never forgiven if he believes less.

  

  George Holyoake
  • Believes
  • Less
  • Forgiven

• It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.

  

  Donna McKechnie
  • People
  • Mean

• Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.

  

  William Thurston
  • Thinking
  • Argument
  • Mathematical