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Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

“All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.”

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Claude Levi-Strauss was a French anthropologist known for his structuralist theories and his analyses of myths, kinship, and human culture. His work has had a profound impact on post-structuralism and semiotics. more

“Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.”

Thinking Knows Years Made Said Energy Air New York Errors Excitement Wasting Time Neurosis Wasted Time Time Spent

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.”

Interest Source Mathematics Rate Cease Branches Specialists Paralysis

Author:Andre Weil

“In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.”

World Way Connections Complexes Meanings Of Words

Book:The Invention of Solitude

Source: The Invention of Solitude

“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.”

Ifs Faces Form Numbers One Thing Thousand Mathematics Structure Size Mathematical

Author:Alexander Grothendieck

“There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.”

Problem Able Stuff Bits Foundation Bubbles

Author:Nils John Nilsson

“To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.”

Ifs Men World Heart Would Be Voice Moral Teach Source Genius Originals Sincerity Wiser Clamor

Author:Ludwig Borne

“One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.”

Firsts Seems Fun Obvious Finished Ridiculous

Author:Fischer Black

“Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works.”

Looks Design

Author:Steve Jobs

“I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.”

Knows World Noble Contemplation

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.”

Years Has Beens Two Film Artist Loses Intellectual Glasses Myth

Author:Woody Allen

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