David Mumford Quotes

A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

David Mumford

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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

Olivia Wilde
- People
- Love
- Age
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Paddy Ashdown
- Me
- Change
- Grief
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

B. Carroll Reece
- Work
- Own
- Work Hard
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Pankaj Mishra
- People
- Life
- World
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Children
- Remember
- Flower
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Felix Bloch
- Free
- Imagination
- Youth