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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.
Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.
The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.
I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields - it's very refreshing.
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.
I recall being fascinated by numbers even at age three and viewed their manipulation as a kind of game.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.
Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.
Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.
The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.