Cita (XIV)
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. --Albert Einstein
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. --Albert Einstein
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Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen. --David Hilbert
Translation: We must know. We will know.
Speech in Königsberg in 1930, now on his tomb in Göttingen
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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. --John Von Neumann
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Philosophy is written in this grand book— I mean the universe— which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. --Galileo Galilei (1623)
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Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können. --David Hilbert
(No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.)
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You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. --John Von Neumann (a Claude Shannon)
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Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. --George Pólya
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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. --Charles Darwin
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. --John von Neumann (a Felix T. Smith)
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. --Carl Friedrich Gauss
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If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? --David Hilbert
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Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. --Mikhail Bakunin
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. --Galileo Galilei
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Gran marca de galetes, vistes a una tenda "duty free" de l'aeroport de Berlín-Schönefeld
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"L'imagination se lassera plutot de concevoir que la nature de fournir." --Blaise Pascal
(La imaginació es cansa abans que la natura)
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Espero que no et multin si caus. Vist a la Ciutat Prohibida.
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També és diponible gratuitament a la web de Jonathan Coulton.
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