Avectus Quotes & Sayings

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all. — Andre Breton

If loving what you do = doing what you love.
Never compromise on your passion. — K.J. Kilton

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so. — Thor Heyerdahl

But it was the closest thing he had to a home. His — Ruth Cardello

Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas. — William Thurston

Shall we stop this bleeding? — Abraham Lincoln

It is an infallible truth that if we do not fear God, we will be afraid of Him at the revelation of His glory, for every knee shall bow to Him, if not out of godly fear then out of terror — John Bevere

Hysteria derives from the Greek word for "uterus," and the extreme emotional state it denotes was once thought to be due to a wandering womb; men were by definition — Rebecca Solnit

(As a rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This — Charles Wheelan