V.I. Arnold Quotes

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.

Many of us would like the world to change, but we don't want to endure the trouble of helping make it happen.

Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves.

Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

Any time your head explodes, that's not a good situation.

Women; can't live with em, can't kill em

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.

People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.