My personal quotes collection
For inspiration and amusement :)
Teacher is the highest
and most responsible office man can fill.
N.W. Chittenden served as the Editor of the first English edition (1728) of “the greatest work of the greatest Teacher”: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, originally publised in 1687
Anything created by human beings
is already in the great book of nature.
If we knew what we were doing,
it wouldn’t be called research.
From the book “Community Ecology” (2019), by Gary Mittelbach and Brian McGill.
Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all.
From the book “Euler: The Master of Us All”, by William Dunham I read a few years ago (amazing read by the way!)
No matter their speciality, mathematicians of today may truly say of Euler what was once said of Wren: “If you seek his monument, look around.”
From the book “Euler: The Master of Us All”, by William Dunham I read a few years ago (amazing read by the way!)
In memory of my father
who taught me the love of nature,
and of
my wife,
Leslie Kilham Johnson
who taught me the nature of love
This is cited in Hubbell’s famous book “The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (2001)”
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail,
reason the card,
but passion is the gale.
This is cited by Alfred Lotka (1880–1949) in his 1924 book “Elements of mathematical biology”
Los científicos dicen que estamos hechos de átomos,
pero a mí un pajarito me contó que estamos hechos de historias.
Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist.
Ganar queremos todos,
pero sólo los mediocres no aspiran a la belleza.
Jorge Valdano is part of the Argentine Fútbol1 Team that won the 1986 World Cup in Mexico ‘86 (yes, the one with Maradona’s ’hand of god’’ ).
Footnotes
yes, not ‘fooball’ and not ‘soccer’, but in this very special case: fúbol↩︎