Cornelius Lanczos quotes

“It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.”
-- Cornelius Lanczos

Source : "Applied Analysis" by Cornelius Lanczos, Prentice-Hall, 1956.

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“Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.”
-- Cornelius Lanczos

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“The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.”
-- Cornelius Lanczos

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“Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.”
-- Cornelius Lanczos

Source : Cornelius Lanczos (1970). “Space through the ages: The evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein”

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“The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.”

“In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.”

“There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.”

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.”