Konstantinos

“They were very upset when I said that the thing of greatest importance to mathematics in Europe was the discovery by Tartaglia that you can solve a cubic equation-which, altho it is very little used, must have been psychologically wonderful because it showed a modern man could do something no ancient Greek could do, and therefore helped in the renaissance which was the freeing of man from the intimidation of the ancients-what they are learning in school is to be intimidated into thinking they have fallen so far below their super ancestors.”
― Richard Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (from the Beaten Track): The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
― Albert Einstein

“The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.”
― Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

“Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”
― George Bernard Shaw