Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.

I'm a huge cook! I'm actually trying to write my first cookbook. I make an Indian-spice Bolognese and serve it over pasta. It's a combination of flavors that people aren't used to.

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

I am 32 flavors and then some.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.