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"13 John von Neumann Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 December 1903. Died: 8 February 1957 | Mathematician | Physicist | Computer scientist | Engineer | Polymath |

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Truth Complicated Allow Approximations
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Stable Processes Predict Control
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Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

Life Process Abstracted Media
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Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Problems Vague terms Problems
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

People Believe Mathematics Life
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

Sense Pricise Know Talking about
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Computers are like humans - they do everything except think
Computers Human Everything Think
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Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Technological Possibilities Man Control
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Young Mathematics Understand
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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Foolish People Selfish Nature
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If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Penetrated Subject Contrast Mathematical
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Mathematics Language Primary Secondary
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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't

God Things Easier Explain
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John von Neumann Quotes & Sayings