Goldbachs Conjecture Quotes & Sayings

Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too. — Frederick Buechner

Create or attract through focused desire the things you wish for in life. — Steven Redhead

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness. — Hesiod

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace. — Widad Akreyi

You are lost the moment you know what the result will be. — Juan Gris

So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we're capable of playing. That's a greater challenge in itself, but that's really what we're after. — Pete Carroll

Notice, for instance, that Galileo does not pull out the old Aristotelian reductio and conclude from the paradoxical behavior of infinite sets that (infinity) can't be reasoned about. Instead, he manages somewhat to anticipate both Kant (by attributing (Infinity)-paradoxes to the hardwired constraints of 'finite minds' rather than to any extramental reality) and Cantor (by using one-to-one correspondence as a comparative measure of sets, by arguing that infinite quantities obey a different sort of arithmetic than do finite quantities, etc.) — David Foster Wallace

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens. — Alexandra Kleeman

Instead of taking care to acquaint ourselves with others, we only think of making ourselves known to them. It would be better to listen to other people in order to become enlightened rather than to speak so as to shine in front of them. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree. — Philippa Gregory

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. — Arthur Miller

another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'. — Craig Brown