Eric Temple Bell Quotes

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

Eric Temple Bell

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• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Journey

• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Time
  • History
  • Beautiful

• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  

  Confucius
  • Courage
  • Trouble
  • Morality

• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Lose
  • Ruin

• The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • United States
  • Exporter

• Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it!

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Important
  • Insignificant

• I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fashion
  • Faces
  • Marvellous

• Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

  

  William Zabka
  • Character
  • Sometimes

• Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Book
  • Lovers

• Roger Casement is an intriguing figure - humanitarian, Irish revolutionary, gay - and much had and would be written about him, there was something about his character as a conflicted man, an Irish Protestant who spent much of his time representing England in different African nations, a gay man who, true to the times, kept his sexual orientation to himself, that kept playing in my head. I read on and around him, but a historical figure is not a story - it's not even a character - so my story, the one that I would develop into Valiant Gentlemen, had yet to reveal itself.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Men
  • Different
  • Character

• The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Women
  • Country
  • Real

• But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truths
  • Planets
  • Wonders

• The screenplay talks to the conscious mind and the music to the subconscious mind. Our subconscious tells us we are eternal but our consciousness tell us we are mortals. Music is part of eternity. If God exists he is the composer.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • God
  • Consciousness
  • Eternal

• Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Merit
  • Mortals
  • Mathematicians