Richard Courant quote: "Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality."

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RICHARD COURANT

the issue of race and class that has become the clear and convincing issue in this tragedy.
HARTFORD COURANT

This is an exciting day for ING,'' said Fred S. Hubbell, chairman of ING Americas and ING Asia/Pacif...
HARTFORD COURANT

money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to g...
HARTFORD COURANT

Algebra was my particular nemesis, ... This gave me a strong feeling of frustration, a feeling of be...
HARTFORD COURANT

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.
RICHARD BAXTER

The conscious water saw its God and blushed. - Richard Crashaw,
RICHARD CRASHAW

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of...
RICHARD BAUSCH

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant...
RICHARD LAMM

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther...
RICHARD DAWKINS

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, n...
RICHARD PRYOR

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two ball...
RICHARD BACH

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Cold blows the wind against the hill, And cold upon the plain; I sit me by the bank, until ...
RICHARD GARNETT

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-myster...
RICHARD ROHR

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go...
RICHARD BRANSON

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our ...
RICHARD BRANSON

After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle...
RICHARD SMALLEY

And, of course, Barbados is the other place where I like to be.
CLIFF RICHARD

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.
RICHARD CORLISS

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to f...
RICHARD BRANSON

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the...
RICHARD BRANSON

There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a...
RICHARD SHERMAN

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
RICHARD DREYFUSS

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that y...
RICHARD LAMM

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real p...
RICHARD LAMM

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of cons...
RICHARD PRINCE

I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of F...
RICHARD CORLISS

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks a...
RICHARD DAWKINS

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and sprea...
RICHARD DAWKINS

The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented...
RICHARD DAWKINS

We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the...
RICHARD ROHR

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go ...
RICHARD DAWKINS

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that&...
RICHARD PHILLIPS

The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbo...
RICHARD SMALLEY

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination th...
RICHARD DREYFUSS

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to mak...
RICHARD SAVAGE

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible ...
RICHARD HELMS

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to imp...
RICHARD BRANSON

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was ki...
RICHARD WIDMARK

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me...
RICHARD SIMMONS

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of th...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation...
RICHARD GERE

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on...
RICHARD TRUMKA

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that i...
RICHARD ENGEL

'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forwa...
RICHARD STANLEY

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
RICHARD MARX

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doct...
RICHARD DAWKINS

What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious...
RICHARD ENGEL

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictur...
RICHARD AVEDON

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way...
RICHARD DREYFUSS

I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memorie...
RICHARD DREYFUSS

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - thou...
RICHARD DAWKINS

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't pro...
RICHARD DAWKINS

I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when ...
RICHARD WAGNER

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love o...
RICHARD CECIL

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His as...
RICHARD WIDMARK

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.
RICHARD HAMMOND

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything ...
RICHARD BRANSON

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Ma...
RICHARD DAWKINS

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers whi...
RICHARD DAWKINS

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are ...
RICHARD BACH

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatt...
RICHARD STALLMAN

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker ...
RICHARD STALLMAN

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include e...
RICHARD STALLMAN

Proprietary software is an injustice.
RICHARD STALLMAN

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
RICHARD STALLMAN

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most differe...
RICHARD ROHR

An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the ...
RICHARD BRANSON

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you&#...
RICHARD LAMM

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard ...
RICHARD LAMM

We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able...
RICHARD LAMM

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health ...
RICHARD LAMM

As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the br...
RICHARD CARMONA

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
RICHARD BRANSON

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar...
RICHARD LEDERER

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get...
RICHARD ROGERS

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, an...
RICHARD ROGERS

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
RICHARD STEELE

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
RICHARD BURTON

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
RICHARD BURTON

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters,...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.
RICHARD BRANSON

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some...
RICHARD BRANSON

I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican poi...
RICHARD MOURDOCK

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
RICHARD GERE

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
RICHARD GERE

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
RICHARD GERE

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too intr...
RICHARD GERE

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, bec...
RICHARD GERE

Everyone responds to kindness.
RICHARD GERE

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith...
RICHARD DAWKINS

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
RICHARD BRANSON

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR

God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.
RICHARD YATES

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing ...
RICHARD YATES

You've got a shitty habit, you know it? I've noticed it on all those TV drive-safely pitches that yo...
RICHARD BACHMAN

Herk threw up the mouse, the hamburger he'd eaten for lunch, and some pasty glop that looked like to...
RICHARD BACHMAN

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...
RICHARD DAWKINS

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work...
RICHARD BACH

Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared i...
RICHARD DUE

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman t...
RICHARD RORTY

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was...
RICHARD MARCINKO

A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
RICHARD HOLMES

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of ma...
RICHARD WHATELY

Language is a field of battle, the media is the artillery, and vocabulary is the ammunition. The NWO...
RICHARD MOORE

Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one...
RICHARD FORD

People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough t...
LITTLE RICHARD

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
RICHARD ARMOUR

You teach best what you most need to learn.
RICHARD BACH

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
RICHARD BACH

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our l...
RICHARD BACH

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours
RICHARD BACH

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsi...
RICHARD BACH

(I) once asked Richard Feynman whether he thought of mathematics and, by extension, the laws of phys...
RICHARD FEYNMAN

In order to win, you must expect to win.
RICHARD BACH

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.
RICHARD EDWARDES

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
RICHARD BAXTER

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to...
RICHARD BACH

I cry every chance I get.
RICHARD GERE

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choo...
RICHARD BACH

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
RICHARD BACH

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevert...
RICHARD BACH

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
RICHARD KEMPH

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.
RICHARD STINE

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but ...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
RICHARD BACH

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum. - Richard Rowland,
RICHARD ROWLAND

The primroses were over.
RICHARD ADAMS

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
RICHARD BACH

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your ti...
RICHARD CECIL

...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right pe...
RICHARD BACH

Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.
RICHARD CAREW

Anxiety is the space between the "now" and the "then."
RICHARD ABELL

It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
RICHARD BENTLEY

Popularity is not leadership.
RICHARD MARCINKO

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but whic...
RICHARD WHATELY

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessari...
RICHARD DAWKINS

There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by...
RICHARD BRANSON

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
RICHARD WAGNER

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd...
RICHARD GERE

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
RICHARD LEWIS

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
RICHARD RORTY

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they ar...
RICHARD WHATELY

Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying....
RICHARD SIKEN

How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and...
RICHARD YATES

Tresses, that wear Jewels, but to declare How much themselves more precious are.
RICHARD CRASHAW

What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. ...
RICHARD SAVAGE

Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.
RICHARD ROSSI

It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who ha...
RICHARD HANSARD

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understand...
RICHARD BACH

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
RICHARD BACH

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
RICHARD STRAUSS

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a gro...
RICHARD BARNFIELD

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themsel...
RICHARD HOOKER

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON

What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrat...
RICHARD TAYLOR

I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the w...
RICHARD COBDEN

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour...
RICHARD DAWKINS

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.'...
RICHARD HAMMOND

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
RICHARD SELZER

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
LITTLE RICHARD

Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
RICHARD FRANCK

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about lon...
RICHARD SCHIFF

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel b...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness a...
RICHARD HALLOWAY

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
RICHARD MCKENNA

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS

On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL

...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH

A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti...
RICHARD MITCHELL

No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 ...
RICHARD CORLISS

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH

Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God ...
RICHARD ROHR

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say i...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

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