Tripos Quotes & Sayings

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible. — Peter Sarsgaard

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! — Anonymous

Some people run from pain their whole lives, and what pain they do not digest they inflict upon others. — Bryant McGill

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have. — Theodor Adorno

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country. — Spiro T. Agnew

After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge mathematical tripos. A very sensitive mathematics don recommended that I talk to the historian of astronomy, Michael Hoskin, and the conversation led me to enroll in the History and Philosophy of Science for my final undergraduate year. — Philip Kitcher