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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
"Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe."
"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles."
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."
"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."
"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard."
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."
"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."
"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
"If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
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