Karl Weierstrass Quotes
“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.
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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]
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It makes you wonder how this was discovered, because these are some pretty big numbers here. You can't have complete confidence in these numbers yet. I don't think management completely has the situation in their grasp.
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I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.
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Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.
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This was puzzling, as the standard textbook of psychiatry at the time stated that incest was extremely rare in the United States, occurring about once in every million women.8 Given that there were then only about one hundred million women living in the United States, I wondered how forty seven, almost half of them, had found their way to my office in the basement of the hospital. Furthermore, the textbook said, “There is little agreement about the role of father-daughter incest as a source of serious subsequent psychopathology.” My patients with incest histories were hardly free of “subsequent psychopathology”—they were profoundly depressed, confused, and often engaged in bizarrely self-harmful behaviors, such as cutting themselves with razor blades. The textbook went on to practically endorse incest, explaining that “such incestuous activity diminishes the subject’s chance of psychosis and allows for a better adjustment to the external world.
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“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
