Frege Foundations Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods. — John Cornwell

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic ... It is all the more serious since, with the loss of my rule V, not only the foundations of my arithmetic, but also the sole possible foundations of arithmetic seem to vanish. — Gottlob Frege

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. — William Hazlitt

Life is precious and all too short. So I laugh, sing and dive into things heads first with the hope that I don't scrape my ass on the bottom. And when I do I break out the bandaids — K.L. Parry

Remember: Enjoy your life today, because yesterday has gone and tomorrow may never come. — Alan Coren

A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press. — Gottlob Frege

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant? — Neal A. Maxwell

Birmingham was a dirty industrial city, and from the plane it had a delicate rose-pink aura of pollution, like the chiffon scarf around the neck of an old prostitute. — Ken Follett

Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor. — Lydia Sigourney

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically ... but that does not justify him in pretending ... that Christ is, in effect, Mars. — George Bernard Shaw

While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things. — R. Kelly

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing. — William McChesney Martin