Allan McLeod Cormack quotes

“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”
-- Allan McLeod Cormack

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“Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.”
-- Allan McLeod Cormack

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“There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.”
-- Allan McLeod Cormack

Source : Allan McLeod Cormack's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1979.

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“I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.”

Source : "Fame and Fingernails as a TV Mobster's Wife". Interview with Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2001.

“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”

Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.

“I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!”

Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.

“Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.”

“Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.”

“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”

“I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.”

“I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I've got all kinds.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I want to die with my blue jeans on.”

“But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.”