Serjik Abrahamian Quotes & Sayings

Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ [as] crowds of Japanese silently streamed after us, stretching out their hands to touch Hawking's wheelchair ... The crowds had streamed after Einstein [on Einstein's visit to Japan in 1922] as they streamed after Hawking seventy years later ... They showed exquisite choice in their heroes ... Somehow they understood that Einstein and Hawking were not just great scientists, but great human beings. — Freeman Dyson

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything. — M. Scott Peck

If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true? — Oscar Hammerstein II

If you rock the boat in a fragile family, the concern is that everyone will drown. Hmmm, — Susan Juby

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked. — Henry David Thoreau

Caution seldom goes far enough. — Walt Whitman

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. — Marilyn Monroe

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter ... — Nikki Giovanni

I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad. — Rie Rasmussen

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof. — G.H. Hardy