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The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.
Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.
[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus
Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.
Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.
Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.