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“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”
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“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”
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“The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute to its solution.”
Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“The problem with quotes on the internet is it is hard to verify their authenticity”
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“I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.”
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“Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.”
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“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
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“Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.”
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“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.”
Source : "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.
