Intercepts Math Quotes & Sayings

But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousand miles of coral reef win first prize? Man's self awareness, sheer conceit. There was no way to prove that sperm whales and sequoias were not philosophers and poets exceeding any human merit? — Robert A. Heinlein

Never again. I'm done. This is the last time I will ever have this feeling. — Alicia Kobishop

Every honest miller has a golden thumb. — Geoffrey Chaucer

All force strives forward to work far and wide
To live and grow and ever to expand;
Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side
By the world's flux and swept along like sand:
In this internal storm and outward tide
We hear a promise, hard to understand:
From the compulsion that all creatures binds,
Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become. — Jodi Meadows

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan

Do they think 'he's very dedicated' or 'he's obsessed with that bloody bike'? — Martin Gatenby