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Mathematician Inspirational Quotes (11981)

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The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.
Werner Heisenberg
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The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.
Werner Heisenberg
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The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
Werner Heisenberg
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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
Werner Heisenberg
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Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
Werner Heisenberg
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Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel
Paul Romer
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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
Aristotle
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
Lewis Carroll
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My books are friends that never fail me.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
Leonardo da Vinci
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions
Whitfield Diffie
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People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work
Whitfield Diffie
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
Whitfield Diffie
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I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.
Whitfield Diffie
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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Rene Descartes
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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
Wilbur Smith
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I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
Wilbur Smith
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I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
Wilbur Smith
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All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
Wilbur Smith
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I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
Wilbur Smith
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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
Wilbur Smith
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When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
Wilbur Smith
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