Noga Alon quotes

“I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes.  Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'”
-- Noga Alon

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“In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.”
-- Noga Alon

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“Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.”
-- Noga Alon

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“There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.”
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“Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!”
-- Noga Alon

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“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”

“Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.”

“Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.”

“The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.”

“I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.”