The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.
Neil deGrasse TysonTags: science education philosophy interesting
The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: boredom boring interesting
The Super Constellations took three days to reach London [from Australia] and lacked the power or range to dodge most storms. When monsoons or cyclones were encountered, the pilots had no choice but to put on the seat belt signs and bounce through them. Even in normal conditions they flew at a height guaranteed to produce more or less constant turbulence. (Qantas called it, without evident irony, the Kangaroo Route.) It was, by any modern measure, an ordeal.
Bill BrysonTags: humor interesting
When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: interesting detective-fiction informative
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. MullikenTags: humor science life purpose meaning-of-life courage funny meaning suicide rationality hedonism interesting study purpose-of-life nobel-laureate scientist molecular-orbital-theory scientific-hedonism study-of-science
The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange, Laplace, and Gauss, who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. Lagrange is perfect both in form and matter, he is careful to explain his procedure, and though his arguments are general they are easy to follow. Laplace on the other hand explains nothing, is indifferent to style, and, if satisfied that his results are correct, is content to leave them either with no proof or with a faulty one. Gauss is as exact and elegant as Lagrange, but even more difficult to follow than Laplace, for he removes every trace of the analysis by which he reached his results, and studies to give a proof which while rigorous shall be as concise and synthetical as possible.
W.W. Rouse BallTags: science style difficulty elegance scientists argument praise perfection proof interesting masters lagrange gauss laplace pierre-simon-laplace joseph-louis-lagrange carl-friedrich-gauss modern-analysis
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