Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Fortune Quote #308
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them. -- Bill Vaughn
streets after them. -- Bill Vaughn
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Fortune Quote #307
He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties
of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor
shrinking from the other--take it that such a one has attained
Perfection. -- Bhagavan Krishna
of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor
shrinking from the other--take it that such a one has attained
Perfection. -- Bhagavan Krishna
Friday, June 7, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Fortune Quote #304
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme
beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal
to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of
painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection
such as only the greatest art can show. -- Bertrand Russell
beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal
to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of
painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection
such as only the greatest art can show. -- Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Fortune Quote #303
Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for
ugly mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
ugly mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
Monday, June 3, 2013
Fortune Quote #302
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than
Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in
mathematics as surely as in poetry. -- Bertrand Russell
Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in
mathematics as surely as in poetry. -- Bertrand Russell
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Fortune Quote #301
Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of
absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible
world, must conform. -- Bertrand Russell
absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible
world, must conform. -- Bertrand Russell
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Fortune Quote #300
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year
ago. -- Bernard Berenson
ago. -- Bernard Berenson
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