G. H. Hardy Quotes
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
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The angel of death, she said proudly, touched me when I was a child, with the exact same illness as now, but I screwed him, even though I was just a girl. And you'll see, I'll screw him again, because I know how to suffer. I learned at the age of ten, I haven't stopped since. And if you know how to suffer, the angel respects you, after a while he goes away. As she spoke she pulled up her dress and showed me the injured leg like the relic of an old battle. She smacked it, observing me with a fixed half-smile on her lips and terrified eyes.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Mammy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
