Funny Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota Download Open image “How did he do it? He must be a genius!” — Gian-Carlo Rota ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Genius Inspirational Intelligence Love
Himself a genius to realize that the best way to fool the people around are. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust. — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined.… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature.… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image