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Mathematician Inspirational Quotes (11963)

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After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.
Ronald Fisher
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
Thomas A. Edison
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For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?
Thomas Hobbes
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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about business, with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any business accomplished in these circumstan
Thomas Carlyle
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One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain the latter desires impossibilities.
Democritus
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
Thomas A. Edison
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
Giordano Bruno
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!
Tom Lehrer
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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle
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The mind has its arrangement it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.
Blaise Pascal
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The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
Gregor Mendel
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
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No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it.
Jeffrey Lagarias
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori
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Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
Danica McKellar
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
Dennis Ritchie
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
Pythagoras
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The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
Pierre Duhem
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Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
Eugene Wigner
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