Leonidovich Quotes & Sayings

America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason. — Julian Whitaker

Nothing good stands without the right attitude. You may know how to do it, but if the attitude is negative, all you can say is "I could have done it". — Israelmore Ayivor

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters. — Neil Gaiman

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats. — Lauren Oliver

When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse! — Avijeet Das

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts. — Anne Bronte

This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud ... — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov