Whitbread Quotes

#1. [Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

#2. First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

Hans Frank

#3. Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Hosea Ballou

#4. Choice
I needed it like I needed air.
Bit no one could hear me.
No one could listen.
No words. No sound.
No voice.
I couldn't even dream myself away.
Choices were made.
None of them mine.
At first I wondered if it was hell.
And then I knew it was.

Mary E. Pearson

#5. The Brothers Karamazov is a joyful book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. [Lockyer] ... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature.
[Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

#7. Our performancism leads to pride when we succeed and to despair when we fail.

Tullian Tchividjian

#8. The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not.

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

#9. New truth is old heresy.

Steven J. Lawson