Quotes About Sophie Germain

#1. Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#2. It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

M.L. Stedman

#3. The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Steven James

#4. The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards ...

Anne Sexton

#5. But the rest of the evening is nothing but the trembling edges of something I am so tired of feeling and I do not want to feel anymore.

Aimee Bender

#6. Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

Sophie Germain

#7. It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go

Sophie Germain

#8. What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

Helen Keller

#9. I don't know how to talk about technology in a positive or negative way because it's just the way the world is to me. It seems like talking about the advantages of breathing through holes in our face instead of holes that lead more directly to the lungs.

Chelsea Martin

#10. With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.

Diane Wolkstein

#11. Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words;
geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

Sophie Germain

#12. The knowledge and successful pursuit of your destiny brings riches into your world

Sunday Adelaja

#13. The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job,

Josephine Tey

#14. I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Albert Camus