Abel Quotes

• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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• In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."

  Eric Temple Bell

  Seven Years, Order, Six

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Math, Track, Tails

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• The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

  David Robertson

  Bridges, Boss

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• Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Luck, Roaring, Said

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• The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Science, Devil, Divergent

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• Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they were finite; but is that permissible? I think not. Where is it demonstrated that one obtains the differential of an infinite series by taking the differential of each term? Nothing is easier than to give instances where this is not so.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Thinking, Giving, Infinite

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• The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.

  Jake Abel

  Auditions, Sometimes, Process

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

  Jake Abel

  Long, Choices, Wrong Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding from the special to the general and it is extremely peculiar that such a procedure has led to so few of the so-called paradoxes.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Science, Special, Peculiar

  Letter to Professor Christoffer Hansteen (1826) "Oeuvres Complètes de N. H. Abel", mathematician, Nouvelle edition (1881) ed., Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow & Sophus Lie, Vol. 2, pp. 263-265, as quoted by Øystein Ore, "Niels Henrik Abel: Mathematician Extraordinary", p. 113, 1957.

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• By studying the masters and not their pupils.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Math, Science, Study

  Niels Henrik Abel, Olav Arnfinn Laudal, Ragni Piene (2004). “The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel: The Abel Bicentennial, Oslo, June 3-8, 2002”, p.353, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

  Charles Hermite

  Science, Years, Busy

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• I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  Taya Kyle

  Evil, Challenges, Cain And Abel

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• Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.113

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• I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill one another in civil wars. But most important, whoever kills, kills his brother. That's a moral conclusion that may not be there; but that must be my conclusion. Otherwise, why read it? Whoever kills, kills his brother.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, War, Joy

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

  Park Chan-wook

  Vampire, Nosferatu, Jordan

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• 'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

  Louise Mensch

  Kids, Fiction, Firsts

  "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.

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• On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.

  Jim Butcher

  Brother, Children, Jealous

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.16, Penguin

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• There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Power, Support, President

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Brother, Mind, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.88

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Boredom

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• The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears we caused by forgetting Thy love. Forgive us, Lord, for the curse we falsely attributed to their name as Jews. Forgive us for crucifying Thee a second time in their flesh. For we knew not what we did.

  Pope John XXIII

  Brother, Blood, Names

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• Let's be honest, the cards' on the table:
  Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel.
  Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus.
  It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

  Pusha T

  Weed, Jesus, Rap

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• Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel,
  Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table.

  GZA

  Rap, Artist, Cain

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• My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?"

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Different, Cain

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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