Grigori Perelman quotes

“It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.”
-- Grigori Perelman

Source : "Manifold Destiny". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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“I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?”
-- Grigori Perelman

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“Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed .”
-- Grigori Perelman

Source : "Manifold Destiny". Interview with Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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“Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?”
-- Grigori Perelman

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“If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.”
-- Grigori Perelman

Source : "Manifold destiny" by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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“I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.”
-- Grigori Perelman

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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.221, A&C Black

“The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.”

“I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.”

“Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.”

“Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.”

Source : Christos Tsiolkas (2014). “Barracuda”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

“Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga”