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According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.
A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year.
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.
The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.
The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence.
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.
That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.
Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.
There might be a hidden structure in pi that we simply haven't discovered.
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.