All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“Can we survive Technology?”
“Unsolved Problems in Mathematics”
“The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society”
“Method in the Physical Sciences”
“It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way… Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe. As quoted in "The Mathematician" in The World of Mathematics (1956), by James Roy Newman”
“When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system. As quoted in John von Neumann, 1903”
“John von Neumann (1903”
“You should call it entropy , for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name , so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. Suggesting to Claude Shannon a name for his new uncertainty function, as quoted in Scientific American Vol. 225 No. 3, (1971), p. 180.”
“I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics,”
“O cheiro de cravo, a cor de canela, eu vim de longe vim ver Gabriela. Colour of cinnamon, Clove's sweet smell, I've come a long way To see Gabrielle.”
“song of the cacao region”
“Encyclopedic article on Jorge Amado on Wikipedia”
“I know that love is the only thing that saves us from the abyss. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966)”
“Writing is like making love: one must give oneself completely.”
“Every man must find his own path, no matter how difficult.”
“The memory keeps what the heart wants to keep.”
“A writer is not only a person who writes, but also someone who reads and lives.”
“Life is a continuous process of arriving.”
“There is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple.”
“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. "To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [ Fervor de Buenos Aires ]”
“The Argentine Writer and Tradition”
“A Poem by Oscar Wilde”
“That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2”
“Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface”
“The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro”
“The Approach to Al”
“The masked dyer Hakim of Merv”
“Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv”
“The Universal Library”
“La biblioteca es el mejor de los arsenales.”