Minkowski Quotes

#1. I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Jimmy Wales

#2. This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

Albert Einstein

#3. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family."
"Very boring, Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

#4. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

Hermann Minkowski

#5. Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures ... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

Hermann Minkowski

#6. Minkowski spacetime.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

Hermann Minkowski

#8. Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

Hermann Minkowski

#9. If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

Anthony Robbins

#10. In the land of chaos it's truly hard to tell who's the good, the bad and who's the ugly.

Do

#11. But had Minkowski and Einstein not recognized it long before us, our schizophrenic children would have taught us that space-time is a unity that precedes any separate understanding of either category; just as grasping this unity is a precondition for understanding causality.

Bruno Bettelheim

#12. What kind of person doesn't like chocolate?

Hend Hegazi

#13. Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

Jawaharlal Nehru

#14. Things that are normal are just normal. Thus it is my experience that most things that are weird are cool.

Kristen Ashley

#15. Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

Hermann Minkowski

#16. Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

Mahatma Gandhi