Quotes for All
I didn’t write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children’s book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That … Read more
I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. G. H. Hardy
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don’t know which half. Erwin Chargaff
Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn’t letter. I still can’t letter. So, they hired me to draw. Ernie Colon
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies. Ernest Rutherford
Like Molière’s M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware of all the principles underlying what they were doing. The real nature of the tools of their craft has become evident only within recent times A renaissance of logical studies … Read more
Publication – is the auction of the mind. Emily Dickinson
My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published. Elena Ferrante
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians’ calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books … Read more
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one’s-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is … Read more