Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
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Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."
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"Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation."
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"Where there is matter, there is geometry."
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"The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics."
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"There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics."
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"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."
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"Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency."
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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
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"God created everything by number, weight and measure."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
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"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
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"He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem."
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"But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes."
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"Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?"
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"The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions."
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"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
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"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
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"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."
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"To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas."
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"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful."
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"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."
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