The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Edensor Littlewood, Mathematics, 0 - John Edensor Littlewood Copy
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Edensor Littlewood, Math, Mediocrity, Paper, 0 - John Edensor Littlewood Copy
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Edensor Littlewood, Light, New year, 0 - John Edensor Littlewood Copy
Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Edensor Littlewood, Problem, 0 - John Edensor Littlewood Copy
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Edensor Littlewood, Composer, Life Is Short, Waste, 0 - John Edensor Littlewood Copy
Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. - Charles Spurgeon Preacher · England
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA
Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make. - Rushworth Kidder Ethicist · USA
There’s fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it. - W. S. Gilbert Playwright · England
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. - Alvin Lee Guitarist · England
Today’s warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future! - Mehmet Murat Ildan Playwright and novelist · Turkey