After decades of retreat from the mainstream, economic history is making its way back to college curricula and scholarly publications. Today as always, present concerns stimulate academics’ choice of subject matter and approaches to historical inquiry.
How does one render an account of life that does justice to the complexity of its multiple dimensions, while at the same time representing it with a degree of unity?
Didier Fassin in Life: A Critical User's Manual
It was very hard to write a paper about it. I felt like someone who had discovered the meaning of life and couldn’t explain it to anybody else.
Edward Witten in Geometric Langlands, Khovanov Homology, String Theory
You need role models who fall down and pick themselves up. You need role models who show how even though you can't do everything, you can do some things.
Karen Uhlenbeck in Karen Uhlenbeck on Being the First Woman to Receive the Abel Prize
