Coffee Quotes (4)
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
In D. S. Richeson, Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology (2008), Preface, ix. Also attributed incorrectly to Paul Erdos, who did often repeat it.
The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation."
The laboratory was an unattractive half basement and low ceilinged room with an inner dark room for the galvanometer and experimental animals. It was dark, crowded with equipment and uninviting. Into it came patients for electrocardiography, dogs for experiments, trays with coffee and buns for lunch. It was hot and dusty in summer and cold in winter. True a large fire burnt brightly in the winter but anyone who found time to warm his backside at it was not beloved by Lewis. It was no good to try and look out of the window for relaxation, for it was glazed with opaque glass. The scientific peaks were our only scenery, and it was our job to try and find the pathways to the top.
— Magazine
'Tribute to Sir Thomas Lewis', University College Hospital Magazine (1955), 40, 71.
See also: | Dog (6) | Equipment (3) | Experiment (183) | Fire (18) | Galvanometer (4) | Laboratory (34) | Pathway (2) | Peak (2) | Window (3)
When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... [A] little tea or coffee restores them. ... [T]here is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.
'Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa for the Sick', Scientific American New Series, 3, 1, p. 3 (2 Jul 1860)
