What did Richard Preston mean by: If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. - Richard Preston Author · USA Copy
+ The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Preston, Earth, Parasites, 0 - Richard Preston Author · USA
+ He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Preston, Loneliness, 0 - Richard Preston Author · USA
+ The best way to know what’s in the soup, is to boil yourself in it. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Preston, Best Way, Soup, 0 - Richard Preston Author · USA
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. - Georg Cantor Mathematician · Germany
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. - Georg Cantor Mathematician · Germany
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. - Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her. - Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
On TV you can’t show landscapes. You just can’t. Even a postcard is better. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France