Quotes - March 7, 2012

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
-- Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas A. Edison

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
-- Edith Wharton, The Last Asset, 1904

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
-- Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985