Famous quotes containing the words table, block, theorem and/or normal:
“The one happiness is to shut ones door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
—Eleonora Duse (18591924)
“No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as Ive grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)