Galois Quotes

#1. [As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Eric Temple Bell

#2. An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

Evariste Galois

#3. Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

Evariste Galois

#4. I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.

Tom Ford

#5. The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#6. When you choose being a loving soul, and give proper attention to your dreams without using your own will power, then you are in a process of creating a range of experiences which flow into your life harmoniously.

Hina Hashmi

#7. Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate or covered head to toe in black burkas or looking for buildings to blow up? It's a puzzle, isn't it? If you ever figure these people out, send me an e-mail.

Aravind Adiga

#8. Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

Terence McKenna

#9. When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness.

Lawrence Weschler

#10. The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.

Evariste Galois