Stephen's Quotes for the Depression Forums 6-1
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:06 pm
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
-- Albert Einstein
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
-- George Ade, "The Steel Box", 1898
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
-- Edith Sitwell
-- Jerome K. Jerome
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
-- Albert Einstein
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
-- George Ade, "The Steel Box", 1898
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
-- Edith Sitwell