A Quote by Hermann Weyl

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.

Hermann Weyl

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Hermann Weyl
German - Mathematician
November 9, 1885 - December 8, 1955

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, we don’t need protections against it.

James Bovard

Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.

Martin Milner

The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making machinery in Washington and state capitals.

Bill Moyers

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.

Keith Devlin

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

Martin Feldstein

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

Daniel Nathans

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.

Bill Maher

Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.

Yves Saint Laurent

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

Linda Chavez

I'd argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to 'Star Trek.' They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism, and other problems that have beset us.

Ronald D. Moore

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

Frank Darabont

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Thom Gunn

Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

W. W. Sawyer

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