"If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach."
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"Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants."
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"Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have."
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"Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man."
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"BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten so far beyond the layman that if you read contemporary philosophy you've no clue, because it's almost become math. And it's odd that if you don't do that and you call yourself a philosopher that you always get 'homespun' attached to it."
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"The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
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"I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science."
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"When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class."
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"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
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"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason."
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"To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse."
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"Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter."
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"Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will."
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"Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it."
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"Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth."
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"Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also."
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"This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes."
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"But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."
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"Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water."
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"It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one."
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