Leopold Kronecker Quotes

#1. Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Leopold Kronecker

#2. Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Harold Pinter

#4. What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

Leopold Kronecker

#5. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Brigitte Bardot

#6. Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

Leopold Kronecker

#7. I used to make clothes for my sister's dolls. I couldn't care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily.

Philip Treacy

#8. The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

Leopold Kronecker

#9. God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man

Leopold Kronecker

#10. All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

Leopold Kronecker

#11. There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

Romain Rolland

#12. If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target.

Fabio Capello

#13. I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

Camilo Villegas

#14. God made the integers; all else is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

#15. Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

Leopold Kronecker

#16. Our table was a large piece of freshly peeled birch bark, laid wrong side up, and our breakfast consisted of hard-bread, fried pork, and strong coffee well sweetened, in which we did not miss the milk.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.

J.A. Brimingham

#18. You can run but you can't hide from a face reader.

Richard Lacey

#19. I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

Sammy Hagar

#20. Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

Leopold Kronecker

#21. God made the integers, man made the rest.

Leopold Kronecker

#22. God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.

Leopold Kronecker