Birkhauser Mathematics Quotes & Sayings

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie

Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me? — Richelle Mead

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof. — David Foster Wallace

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic. — Banana Yoshimoto

It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter. — John Updike

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't. — Arthur Levitt Jr

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. — Karl A. Menninger

Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense. — Oscar De La Renta

After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk, Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive? — Emil M. Cioran