A mathematician, like a
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy
Original Ideas
No mathematician should ever
No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; … [but] I do not know of a single … Read more
A mathematician, like a
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. G. H. Hardy
Some people have no
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. Eric Hoffer
The real Antichrist is
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. Eric Hoffer
Men want to be
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be. Edmund Burke
Couture has copied my
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It’s all part of the business, unfortunately. Edith Head
A good scientist is
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson
The ideas of an
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas. Franz Grillparzer
Some of us have
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. Frank Darabont