Quotes

I felt compelled to post something, so here are quotes from my facebook page.


"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - R. Feynman

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. (Saint Augustine)

“Classification of mathematical problems as linear and nonlinear is like classification of the Universe as bananas and non-bananas.”
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.”
- Charles R. Darwin

“Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.”
- Martin Luther

"Let X equal the quantity of all quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is cold in December. The months of cold equal November through February. There are four months of cold, and four of heat, leaving four months of indeterminate temperature. In February it snows. In March the Lake is a lake of ice. In September the students come back and the bookstores are full. Let X equal the month of full bookstores. The number of books approaches infinity as the number of months of cold approaches four. I will never be as cold now as I will in the future. The future of cold is infinite. The future of heat is the future of cold. The bookstores are infinite and so are never full except in September..."

“Biologists think they are biochemists,
Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists,
Physical Chemists think they are Physicists,
Physicists think they are Gods,
And God thinks he is a Mathematician.”

“Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.”
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. (Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club)


“A tragedy of mathematics is a beautiful conjecture ruined by an ugly fact.”