Wurzelbrot Quotes & Sayings

It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our case, nobody has taken the trouble of writing down the grammar; we get it as a baby does from parents, by imitation of others. Some mathematicians have a good ear; some not (and some prefer the slangy expressions such as 'iff'). That's life. — Jean-Pierre Serre

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking. — Adrian Rogers

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it? — Howard Jacobson

As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth. — Umar

Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into a quart mug. Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. — Carl Sagan

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties — William Shakespeare

Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring. — Zooey Deschanel

happiness manifests itself both personally and collectively as an elusive and deceiving ghost that refuses to let anyone catch it. — Luis E. Navia

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. — Kara Swisher