Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

The art of life is to show your hand. ”

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ”

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ”

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain. ”

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character. ”

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. ”

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. ”

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. ”

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. ”

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. ”