Simply Connected Lie

Famous quotes containing the words simply, connected and/or lie:

    Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
    Paul Valéry (1871–1945)

    As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)