Black Mathematicians Quotes

#1. Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

David Icke

#2. Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

Bill Gaede

#5. Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

Tom Hanks

#6. A result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs.
The Nature of Mathematics

Max Black

#7. There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#8. Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with the space race nevertheless lived in its shadows, even within the black community. Katherine

Margot Lee Shetterly

#9. I am a huge Red Sox fan.

Cass Sunstein

#10. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin

Thomas Jefferson

#12. She knew the cave wasn't very deep. But everything seems bigger in the dark.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard

Thomas Noon Talfourd