Happy Relationship quotes

  • I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments.

  • To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.

  • If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

  • Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

  • We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  • Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  • I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

  • England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.

  • I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.' Without looking up, he says, 'Never apologize for writing your truth, Mr. Fink. There are no right or wrong answers.

  • I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.