Phoenix Quotes (2 quotes)
When, to the flame that the natural heat of youth kindles, the oil of riches is added, little more than the ashes of the phoenix remains; and only a Goethe has had the forbearance not to singe his phoenix wings at the sun of Fortune.
From 'Autobiography' translated from the original German by Eliza Buckminster Lee, collected in Life of Jean Paul Frederic Richter (1842), Vol. 1, 20-21.
Who has not be amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising again from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
In François Le Lionnais (ed.), Great Currents of Mathematical Thought: Mathematics in the Arts and Sciences (1971), Vol. 2, 126.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
