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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
It gives me... gives me hope.
In second chances. In the different manifestations of love. In the inexplicable avenues of God's grace. — S.N. Clemens
In second chances. In the different manifestations of love. In the inexplicable avenues of God's grace. — S.N. Clemens
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
— Mary J. Blige
A technique is a trick that works.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.
— Anthony Marais
Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
("The Castle") — Michael Connelly
("The Castle") — Michael Connelly
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Ask the next question.
— Theodore Sturgeon
Art is the expression that the soul makes without having to explain itself, nor regard the criticism of others.
Reed Abbitt Moore — Reed Abbitt Moore
Reed Abbitt Moore — Reed Abbitt Moore
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
— Augustine Of Hippo
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
— Giannina Braschi
How did he do it? He must be a genius!
— Gian-Carlo Rota
The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.
— Gian-Carlo Rota