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Mathematician Inspirational Quotes (11957)

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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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Am I really a good mathematician?
Norbert Wiener
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Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.
Aristotle
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The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.
Edward Witten
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
Galileo Galilei
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Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.
John C. Baez
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Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
Immanuel Kant
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