Statements & Quotations

My statement as a professional mathematician:

Fellow mathematicians, remember Benjamin Franklin who said:
"We must all hang together or assurely we shall all hang separately"

My statement as a teacher:

Remember that future generations will move a step further toward goals you have pursued but not achieved!... Remember that past generations gave you the tools for you to start moving toward the goals you have achieved!...

Favorite quotations

As a doer: "Nothing happens, unless first a dream" , Carl Sandburg
As a scientist: "For everything that is now covered will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear", Matthew 10:26
As a person: "I prayed for everything that I might enjoy life. I was given life that I might enjoy everything", Kirk Kilgour

My personal tragedy

Being robbed of my children (Johndalbert, born 83, and Gilpatrice, born 87) by a cynical Establishment of liars, devoid of love and many other basic humanistic values. Impressive, the last bastion held in the USA by them who thrive on discrimination...while proclaiming, as on July 4, 1776, that "we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". They discriminate now against (divorced) fathers, as they did against slaves (remember Dred Scott?), as they did against blacks (remember Homer Plessy?)... 

My final message for friends and foes:

Don't count me out, folks!