My favorite quotes

Favorite quotes


  • "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare." Rene Descartes
  • "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
  • "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
  • "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Winston Churchill
  • "Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty." Plato
  • "The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself." Andrew Wiles
  • "The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." Jacques Hadamard
  • "Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician...All you need to do, is give me your soul: give up geometry" Michael Atiyah.