Andrew Wiles Quotes

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

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• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Fall

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Know
  • Sweet
  • Argument

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • War
  • Path

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
  • Possible
  • Too

• Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Life
  • True
  • Nature

• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Hope
  • Research
  • Medical

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Great
  • Bike
  • Ride

• The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

  

  Eric Roberts
  • Great
  • Earth

• The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Career
  • Changed

• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Boy

• I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space

• Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

  

  Andrew Wiles
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  • Forever