52 quotes found
"Let's win one for the Gipper."
"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."
"Win or lose, do it fairly."
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it."
"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven."
"Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up."
"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure."
"Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy.""
"It is not easy to say what metaphysics is. If one looks to works in metaphysics, one finds quite different characterizations of the discipline."
"The spinor genus is due to Eichler. His early results (1952) established the theory over the rational field and also, in certain special cases, over a number field. Kneser (1956) extended this to number fields in general. At about the same time Watson obtained Eichler's results by elementary methods over the rational field."
"Class field theory can be divided into two parts, local and global. In each part it is the study of all the abelian extensions of a certain base field. The underlying philosophy is to describe all abelian extensions in terms of objects residing within, or close to, the base field."
"It was not until my second year as a doctoral student that I began to understand that mathematics was an ever-expanding universe. My thesis advisor at Princeton was Emil Artin, one of the great algebraists of the century. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he offered me no advice in the selection of a thesis topic. I think it was a fluke that I got started at all. But once I did, a whole new world opened up, to which I would devote a vast amount of time and energy for over thirty years."
"The essential point in the definition of an algebra is that it is a vector space of finite dimension over a field. This fact allows us to conclude that of subalgebras will terminate. After the great success that Emmy Noether had in her ideal theory in rings with ascending chain condition, it seemed reasonable to expect that in rings where the ascending and the descending chain condition holds for left ideals one should obtain results similar to those of . As one of the papers written from this point of view we mention E. Artin, Zur Theorie der hyperkomplexen Zahlen (Abh. Math. Sem. Hamburgischen Univ. vol. 5 (1926)). In 1939 showed (Rings with minimal condition f or left ideals, Ann. of Math. vol. 40) that the descending chain condition suffices."
"I think he would have made a great actor. His lectures were polished: He would finish at the right moment and march off the scene. A very lively individual with many interests: music, astronomy, chemistry, history.... He loved to teach. I had a feeling that he loved to teach anybody anything. Being his student was a wonderful experience; I couldn’t have had a better start to my mathematical career. It was a remarkable accident. My favorite theorem, which I had first learned from Bell’s book, was Gauss’s law of , and there, entirely by chance, I found myself at the same university as the man who had discovered the . It was just amazing."
"One very interesting idea is that when we get to the smallest size of all, we don't find a particle, but rather an ultra-tiny vibrating string."
"Two well-regarded measurements for the expansion rate of the universe disagree, leaving cosmologists very puzzled. It may be that something large has been overlooked in our theory of the . This discrepancy is called the and it has led to a very interesting conversation within the cosmology community."
"I'm not personally a fan of the idea of SUSY and I never have been. But it's possible and we should continue to look for it. For one thing, if supersymmetry is false, then superstring theory is false. I don't believe in superstring theory either, but I like it. I kind of hope it's right. But hope isn't good enough in science."
"The history of can be considered nothing less than a huge triumph for science. Over the course of a little more than a century of effort, our understanding of the world of atomic and subatomic physics went from a vague understanding of atoms, to one that is much more detailed. Early in this hundred-year-long period, we learned about electrons (1897), then how they circle a dense nucleus (1911), followed by the discovery of the s (1917) and s (1932) that form the nucleus. From the 1930s onward, researchers used both cosmic rays and particle accelerators to discover antimatter (1932), and particles that don’t exist in atoms (e.g., the [1936] and [1956], as well as a huge number of others)."
"One of the first scientific concepts taught to children is the idea that matter can be a solid, liquid, or gas. Indeed, if you were to ask most American adults how many there are, the most likely answer you would get is three. It would not be unreasonable to consider this to be common knowledge. Yet the scientifically savvy know of far more phases of matter than the familiar three. is another, as is . And there are many more that exist at extreme temperatures or pressures. Change the conditions under which matter finds itself, and it will act in unexpected ways."
"There is no evidence that James worshipped his brother or considered him divine. His emphasis in his letter was not upon the person of Jesus but upon what Jesus taught."
"Christianity, as we came to know it, is Paul and Paul is Christianity."
"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."
"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."
"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father."
"The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them."
"The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important."
"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
"An essential quality of beauty is aloofness."
"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you."
"Before you beat a child, be sure you yourself are not the cause of the offense."
"If you keep your eyes so fixed on Heaven that you never look at the Earth, you will stumble into Hell."
"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."
"The smaller the head the bigger the dream."
"Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis."
"After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that age he has feelings."
"In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin."
"Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers."
"Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces."
"Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind."
"A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market."
"When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor."
"Nations die first in the big cities."
"A pint of whiskey can wash away all the blood of Calvary."
"The most dangerous savages live in cities."
"The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar."
"A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it."
"Hope is the shadow of faith."
"It was a poor man that said God shows His contempt for wealth by the kind of persons He selects to receive it."
"If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it."
"Why is the word for tongue feminine in Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Italian, Spanish, French, and German?"
"Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it."
"To understand a great movement in the world of thought or action, it is usually necessary to approach it on its historic side. It is difficult to grasp its inner spirit and purpose, or gauge aright its possibilities and power, except one. bring to the study of its present condition a thorough knowledge of its past. The larger and more complex the movement is, the more important the study of its past becomes. Only in its history are we able to discern, in clear perspective, the principles that gave it birth, presided over its development, and form the mainspring of its present activity."