Zwillinger Jeffrey Quotes & Sayings

One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant ... The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is dimension-free ... Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum mechanics would shrivel up when 137 was finally explained. — Leon M. Lederman

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives

...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward. — Morgan Rhodes

I don't want to make people mad. I just ... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think? — Brandon Sanderson

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. — Thomas Carlyle

There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying. — John Dewey

And what happens doesn't happen in words. I want to smother all the French beaches I'll never see. Imagine stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around Rockefeller Center. — Chuck Palahniuk

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all. — Ken Kesey

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent. — Berthold Auerbach