" "To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is
inexcusable"-Ludwig van Beethoven."
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
- Andre Gide.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates.
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein.
"Great minds discuss Ideas, Average minds discuss Events, small minds
discuss people." - Eleanor Williams.
"Watch your thoughts; they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character for it will become your destiny."
- Hillel, 1st Century B.C. sage.
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein.
"Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences. ... Neglect of mathematics
works
injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other
sciences or the things of this world. And what is worse, men who are thus ignorant
are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy." -Roger
Bacon (ca. 1214- ca. 1294), Opus Majus.
"Doing mathematics is like exploring a dark mansion: You enter the first room
of the mansion and its completely dark. You stumble around bumping into the furniture but
gradually you learn where each piece of furniture is. Finally, after six months or
so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly its all illuminated.
You can see exactly where you were. Then you move into the next room and spend
another six months in the dark. So each of these breakthroughs, while sometimes
theyre momentary, sometimes over a period of a day or two, they are the culmination
of, and couldnt exist without, the many months of stumbling around in the dark that
precede them." -Andrew Wiles.
"The pecularity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the arguments are on one side."-John Stuart Mill.
"Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better even
if you know it."-Joelenecortez.
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art
is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy,
it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's
indifference"-Elie Wiesel.