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118 Polymath Quotes

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Medicine considers Human body The means Cured
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Different sorts Madness Innumerable
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The world Divided into Men No religion
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There are no incurable diseases,only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs,only the lack of knowledge.

Incurable diseases Worthless herbs The lack Knowledge
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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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Width of life is more important than length of life.

Life More important Length Life
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