Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch quotes

“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”
-- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

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“Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.”

“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?”

“Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.”

“If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.”

Source : Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster

“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”

“A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.”

Source : "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

“The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.”

“Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.”