Jean Dieudonne Quotes

#1. Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.

Edward Bok

#2. There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.

Deepa Mehta

#4. I did have a beautiful life. It ended early, that's all.

Rose Tremain

#5. How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond them
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

Jean Dieudonne

#7. I don't talk about my private life.

Marianne Faithfull

#8. Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

Jean Dieudonne

#9. The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

Jean Dieudonne

#10. We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

Jean Dieudonne

#11. If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.

Scott Adams

#12. Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

Jean Dieudonne