Extremes Quote by David Mumford Download Open image “The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.” — David Mumford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extremes Illuminating Mathematics Possibility Science
The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home. — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom. — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
“I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am . . . illumination.” — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
In the darkest of times, the most fulfilling thing in the world is finding the light. — Pat McAfee Copy Share Image
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems. — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
