Marston Morse quotes

“Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.”
-- Marston Morse

Source : Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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“But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.”
-- Marston Morse

Source : Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag

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“I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.”
-- Marston Morse

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“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.”

“Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,”

“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”

“No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.”

“I think it's really important to live in the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”

“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”

“But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.”