Rene Thom Quotes

#1. At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

Rene Thom

#2. Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive
I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

Jay-Z

#3. Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global ...

Rene Thom

#4. The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should like to state a converse: is not all magic, to the extent that it is successful, geometry?

Rene Thom

#5. Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler

#6. All models divide naturally ... into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under consideration, and the other is dynamics, describing the evolution in time of these forms.

Rene Thom

#7. I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

Rene Thom

#8. It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

James A. Michener

#9. He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will.

Shayla Black

#10. To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, leaders must rehumanize education and work. This means understanding how scarcity is affecting the way we lead and work, learning how to engage with vulnerability, and recognizing and combating shame.

Brene Brown

#11. The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

Rene Thom

#12. If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

Rene Thom

#13. The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

Rene Thom

#14. Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

Rene Thom

#15. Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.

Errol Flynn

#16. Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

Rene Thom

#17. God himself took this human flesh upon him.

William Barclay