Brian Hayes (scientist): Living

Brian Hayes (scientist) is American scientist, columnist and author. Explore interesting quotes on living.
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“I am reminded of those prodigies who spent years of their lives calculating digits of the decimal expansion of pi - a task that is now a mere warm-up exercise for computer software. I cannot help wandering which of my labors will appear equally quaint and pathetic to some future reader who ransacks libraries for old volumes like this one.”

Brian Hayes (scientist)

Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 7, On The Teeth Of Wheels, p. 138

Exercises , Appearance , Future , Help

“The absence of a golden rule for mattress flipping is a disappointment, but it does not pertend the demise of civilization. We can adapt; we can learn to live with it.”

Brian Hayes (scientist)

Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 12, Group Theory In The Bedroom, p. 229

Disappointment , Learning

“If saving human lives is the great desideratum, then there is more to be gained by the prevention of drowning, and auto wrecks than by the abolition of war.”

Brian Hayes (scientist)

Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 5, Statistics Of Deadly Quarrels, p. 89

War