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347 Mathematician Quotes

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

Make Man Saint By grace
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Happiness Found In ourselves External things
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We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty

Desire truth Find within Ourselves Uncertainty
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God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.

God wishes Move The will Mind
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Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Sometime The people Can imagine Anything
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Science Differential equation Boundary condition
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Computer Called intelligent Deceive Human
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The idea Digital computers Machines Intended
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I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

Dream indicating Clearly Being hetero Enthusiasm
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I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

Permanent relationship Feel inclined Reject anything Nature
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Like violence Feels good Human Deeply satisfying
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Programming Skill Best acquired Practice
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Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

Produce Programme Stimulate Adult mind
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields

May hope Machines Will eventually compete Men
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

It requires Usual mind Undertake Analysis
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art Experience Aesthetic enjoyment Pattern
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the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Only simplicity Be trusted Complexity
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We think in generalities, but we live in details.

We think Generalities Live
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Very beginning His education Child Experience
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Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

New idea Looks crazy At first
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Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.

Great dreamers Never fulfilled Always transcended
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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Whole truth Treat them Plays Devil
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

About zero Use it The operation Daily life
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence Quickness Apprehend Ability
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A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Science That hesitates To forget Founders
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling

Life Complex Its expression Percipience
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

The business Future Be dangerous Science
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Rationalism An adventure Clarification Thought
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From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

The moment Birth In action Taking thought
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Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Religion What An individual does His solitariness
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Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

Rise Above Oneself Grasp
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I'll move the world

Give Lever Enough Fulcrum
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Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Man Learned Past History
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Know Past Control Future
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Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Information Resolution Uncertainty
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I have always pursued my interests without much regard for financial value or value to the world.

Pursued Intrests Financial value World
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One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

One Importance Scientific work Publications
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Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Game Played Simple rules Marks
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He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Seeks Method Problem Mind
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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Mathematical science Opinion Organism Connection
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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Mathematics Races Cultural world Country
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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Laws Nature Thoughts God
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Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

Things Equal One another
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And the whole is greater than the part.

Whole Greater Part
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Time Father Truth Mind
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Time takes all and gives all.

Times Takes Gives All
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Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

Damage Science Philosophers Divine
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Stupid Pain Future Present
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever

Divine Love Support Liberty
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There is no law governing all things.

There Law Governing Things
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