R. B. Braithwaite quotes
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“It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.”
-- R. B. Braithwaite
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“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
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“If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.”
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Source : "Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt".
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Source : "No Pain, No Gain" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.
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“There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.”
Source : "Beyond Apollo". Book by Barry N. Malzberg, 1972.
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“The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.”
Source : "Mr. Justice Holmes, 44 Harv. L. Rec. 682, 289". 1931.
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“I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.”
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