#roof

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ↗

— Alcaeus

#canals #city #finely #houses #make

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. ↗

— Stefan Banach

#better #between #find #mathematician #notice

I later asked Mr. Jia about the characters for Christmas. He told me they meant 'holy...birth...festival'---Holy Birthday. So while my students may have never heard the Christmas story, their language still recognized its basic significance, all in just three characters. And those three characters expressed the essential meaning far more succinctly than the Latin-based expressions for Christmas I was familiar with. ↗

— Aminta Arrington

#home

As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock. ↗

— Howard Carter

#end #found #over #partly #proceeded

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

#leave #must #passage #poet #proof

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#roof #shining #sun #time

We need proof in our society. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#our #proof #society

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#body #brought #course #each #executives

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#i #nerve #never #out #run

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#incapable #must #never #proof #which