Marcus du Sautoy Quotes
It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
-
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
-
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
-
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
-
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
-
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
-
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
-
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
-
When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
-
I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
-
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
-
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
-
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
-
Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
-
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
-
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
-
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
-
If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
-
True art lies in a reality that is felt.
-
I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.
-
I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.
-
I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
-
It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.
