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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | James Garfield |

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Clifford Truesdell |

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | James A Garfield |

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | David Smith |