I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the peop...le I'd like to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival c...an ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In progress of time, when my mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian æther, I could, with much more facili...ty and exactness, carry in my memory and commit to paper the exuberant variety of his wit and wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn't mind," said Alice: "three inches is such a wretched height to be...." "It is a very good height indeed!" said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great h...eight to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph.... "Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discove...ry to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suf...fered and why he now reposes in joy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the moon looks larger here than in Europe, probably the sun looks larger also. If the heavens of America appear infinitely high...er, and the stars brighter, I trust that these facts are symbolical of the height to which the philosophy and poetry and religion of her inhabitants may one day soar.... I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more etheral, as our sky,--our understanding more comprehensive and broader, like our plains,--our intellect generally on a grander scale, like our thunder and lightning, our rivers and mountains and forests,--and our hearts shall even correspond in breadth and depth and grandeur to our inland seas. Perchance there will appear to the traveler something ... of joyous and serene, in our very faces. Else to what end does the world go on, and why was America discovered?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was ...not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown?... U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »