George Andrews Quotations

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The traffic was driving right through the gasoline,

When I pulled up, I saw a construction crew on the guardrail pointing to a truck just beyond the King Street overpass,

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to be treated in the ambulance,

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.

In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.

Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.

There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]

The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm,

The driver said someone cut him off or forced him to go to the right. He got too close and caught the corner of the equipment,

The driver (of the Mobil truck) was soaked in gas, ... He had tried to stop it.

All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster,