June 2010
“[…] the entire mathematical community would become much more productive if...”
– WILLIAM P. THURSTON
ON PROOF AND PROGRESS IN MATHEMATICS
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins...”
– Sherlock Holmes
The Say Of The Week
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his livelihood depends...”
– Upton Sinclair
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“Philosophy matters to practitioners because they use philosophy to guide their...”
– the blog formerly known as The Statistical Mechanic: Clarity about these matters …
“If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much...”
– Max Born (via scienceisbeauty)
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov (via scienceisbeauty)
“The real University, he said, has no specific location. It owns no property,...”
– Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“Creo que en la sociedad actual nos falta filosofía. Filosofía como espacio,...”
– José Saramago, Revista del Expresso, Portugal (entrevista), 11 de octubre de 2008
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“On being asked what he meant by the beauty of a mathematical theory of physics,...”
– Freeman Dyson (via scienceisbeauty)
“The environment is everything that isn’t me.”
– Albert Einstein (via scienceisbeauty) (via kwartz)
“Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of...”
– Vladimir Igorevich Arnol’d;(June 12, 1937 – June 3, 2010)
Quote from the discussion on teaching of mathematics in Palais de Découverte in Paris on 7 March 1997
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (1962)
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