“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.”
| John Amery, Politician (1912) |
| Les Baxter, Musician (1922) |
| Michael Caine, Actor (1933) |
| Jasper Carrott, Comedian (1945) |
| Gene Cernan, Astronaut (1934) |
| Albert Einstein, Physicist (1879) |
| Taylor Hanson, Musician (1983) |
| Quincy Jones, Musician (1933) |
| Steve Kanaly, Actor (1946) |
| Hank Ketcham, Cartoonist (1920) |
| Edward Abbey, Author (1989) |
| Howard Aiken, Scientist (1973) |
| George Eastman, Inventor (1932) |
| Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist (1977) |