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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Alison Bechdel
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Gentlemen, start your egos.
Billy Crystal
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Queen Noor of Jordan
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy
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Pankaj Mishra
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Sam Harris
Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.
Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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
