Top 35 John Edensor Littlewood Quotes
#1. The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.
John Edensor Littlewood
#3. Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
John Edensor Littlewood
#5. I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
John Edensor Littlewood
#6. A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
John Edensor Littlewood
#8. He steered their worried thoughts away from what they couldn't do or hadn't done and toward Himself, offering peace in exchange for their anxiety. I got you, buddy. I got you.
Suzanne Eller
#9. What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority ...
Doug Stanhope
#10. Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.
Susan Fletcher
#11. Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
Janine Di Giovanni
#12. Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage ... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.
Don Shula
#13. It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.
John Edensor Littlewood
#14. One time Yates and I were playing a game.
'Yates,' I said, 'you're going to win!'
'Maybe we could all win,' he said.
'No,' I said, 'we cannot all win. There is a winner and a loser. Losing is an incentive to keep practicing.
Megyn Kelly
#15. Let bricks of truth fill the skies and send their walls of conformity crashing down
And let the heavens echo with the blows of our liberation
Steven A. Williams
#16. Seriously. Let. Go. Of. The. Car."
He let go of the car and said, "Suit yourself."
"It would suit me if I could travel back in time and not click 'book now' on that stupid webpage
Kristen Ashley
#17. Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#18. The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.
John Edensor Littlewood
#19. Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and smash a really deep and formidable problem; there was no one else who could command such a combination of insight, technique and power.
Henry Hallett Dale
#20. War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#21. Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.
Reba McEntire
#22. When something or someone moves you, truly moves you, a part of you wakes affected and afflicted by senses you had never previously experiences. A part of you that you never understood, or perhaps never even knew, suddenly sparks into existence.
K.L. Hughes
#23. In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.
John Edensor Littlewood
#24. Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
Joyce Carol Oates
#25. I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said ... "
John Edensor Littlewood
#26. The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.
John Edensor Littlewood
#27. A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".
John Edensor Littlewood
#28. A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.
John Edensor Littlewood
#30. I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.
John Edensor Littlewood
#33. It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)
John Edensor Littlewood
#34. Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.
Terry Goodkind
#35. I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.
John Edensor Littlewood
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