Effects Quote by Paul Halmos

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that…

— E. B. White

A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is…

— E. B. White

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

— Newton D. Baker

Fraternities breed leaders. That, at least, is what most any chapter website will tell you, in not so many words - and the message…

— Maria Konnikova

Fraternity has subtleties.

— Fernando Pessoa

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They…

— Robert Musil

Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity.…

— Wole Soyinka

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly,…

— Simon Newcomb

“Clubs, fraternities, nations—these are the beloved barriers in the way of a workable world, these will have to surrender some of their rights and…

— E.B. White

Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public…

— George Washington

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck