A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods…
You think I think that an artist's job is to speak the truth. An artist's job is to captivate you…
It’s actually Lord Bowen:
“When I hear of an ‘equity’ in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man
in a dark room – looking for a black hat – which isn’t there. ”
Quoted in in “Pie Powder”, Being Dust from the Law Courts: Collected and Recollected on the Western Circuit, by a Circuit Tramp (1911) by John Alderson Foote