Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage
Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it.
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.
Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
All new news is old news happening to new people
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.