Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hilbert

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

David Hilbert

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

David Hume

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

David Hume

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

David Dixon

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

Audrey Tautou

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.

Armstrong Williams

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

We've also discussed the possibility of a swimming pool at the school. Who knows. We are taking it one day at a time.

We've already discussed it, and it's a good possibility.

We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that.

Jeff Davis

We are a grass-roots volunteer organization that has at all times complied with Minnesota registration and disclosure requirements.

We are going to shape the industry discussion on this.

We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.

Anne Beatts

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

We still see IBM attractively valued at a 13 percent discount to S&P multiple.

Where is the thread now? Off again! / The old trick! only I discern - / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.

Laurel Lea

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

Viktor Khristenko

When you start to think about energy security, you must discuss global energy security, because there is no other type.

There is no question it is a very different mindset. The one wants fashion first and the other is a discount shopper.

There is no one better in the world than the secretary general of the U.N. to discuss the importance and relevance of the U.N. in today's world.

Ariel Sharon

there is no link between the end of violence and the question of the settlements. That issue has to be discussed later on between the parties.

Until we get through those tests and doctors have had time to sit down and confer with Kayla and with her family, I don't think we're going to have any answers. Until we can get those evaluations, I don't think we have any opportunity to discuss anything else.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

Nell Newman

What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!

Bob Woodward

Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?

We're meeting and discussing and we really have a lot of things on our plate. We're trying to come to a conclusion.

James Wolfensohn

We respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems?

We're going to get back together next week and discuss a strategy for next year.

Paul Greengard

What this discovery showed was that p11 plays a major role in mood.

What they showed me today was a great job of having discipline at the plate. They weren't swinging at pitches out of the zone.