March 3
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ James Branch Cabell
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. ~ Alexander Graham Bell (born 3 March 1847)
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ Georg Cantor (born 3 March 1845)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast,
That still the knot, in spite of death, does last;
For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul,
Prove well that on your part this bond is whole,
So all we know of what they do above,
Is that they happy are, and that they love.
Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave,
Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have;
Well-chosen love is never taught to die,
But with our nobler part invades the sky.
~ Edmund Waller ~ (born 3 March 1606)- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
[edit] Suggestions
The following quote is a pick me up, for those that are wealthy, compared with where they started... ie... Rags to riches folk, who are feeling down, for whatever reason. "Never lose sight of how far you've come... then... You'll never cease to appreciate what you have."
Glen James Thomas
- —This unsigned comment is by User:Glent (talk • contribs) .
- This doesn't seem to be a quote of anyone already highly noted in some field. ~ Kalki 01:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.. ~ Georg Cantor
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality. ~ Georg Cantor
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.. ~ Georg Cantor
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,
And every conqueror creates a Muse.
~ Edmund Waller ~
Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
~ Edmund Waller ~
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.
~ Edmund Waller ~
