George Andrews quotes
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“There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]”
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“The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.”
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“They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.”
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“It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.”
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“Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them”
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“In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.”
-- George Andrews
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
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