Banach Quotes

#1. In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

Stanislaw Lem

#2. A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

Stefan Banach

#3. Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.

Stefan Banach

#4. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

#5. My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

Robert Crais

#6. If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.

Tim Scott

#7. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

Stefan Banach

#8. The important thing is the educational experience itself - how to survive it.

Donald Barthelme

#9. Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Stefan Banach

#11. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

Indra Nooyi

#12. Mathematics is as old as Man.

Stefan Banach

#13. I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.

Stefan Banach

#14. An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country.

Marie Lu

#15. Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#16. Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.

Nirmala Srivastava

#17. When we suffer, we survive.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Well. This has been erotic. Enlightening. Gods, this is enlightening. Like eye-opening. Nothing else!

T.J. Klune

#19. I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#20. This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

Clive James