Grothendieck Quotes

#1. MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.

Jim Propp

#2. The most popular single in the world was "Livin' la Vida Loca," a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay.

Chuck Klosterman

#3. Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

Alexander Grothendieck

#4. I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

Alexander Grothendieck

#5. In the face of a love this vast, a man could only surrender.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically by creating it in your own being. This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result.

Seth

#7. And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Alice Childress

#8. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Alexander Grothendieck

#10. I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

Steve Wozniak

#11. Economic freedom is very important for women empowerment. They must be partners in economic development also. I have seen that women are very good at adapting to latest technology. We should link women and technology up-gradation.

Narendra Modi

#12. Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

Alexander Grothendieck

#13. The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps ...

Alexander Grothendieck

#14. If the rest of my life were anything like the last couple of days, then that new skill might be the only thing keeping me out of traction. Back

Rachel Rawlings