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A collection of various wise (or not) quotes that I've seen or heard from
time to time. Any suggestions?
- "I do not understand what I cannot create." -- R. P. Feynman
- "I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first
dawnings open little by little into the full light." -- Isaac Newton
- "Four to six weeks in the lab can save you an hour in the library."
-- G. C. Quarderer
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- "In order to invent, one must think aside." -- Paul Souriau
- "The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas." --
Linus Pauling
- "A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists:
when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study
it." -- B. F. Skinner
- "Consciousness, n.: That annoying thing between naps." -- Anonymous tagline
- "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." -- Nikos Kazantzakis
- "[...] If you want to restore a Druid priesthood you cannot do it by offering
prizes for Druid-of-the-year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests."
-- William Arrowsmith
- "Those who cannot do, teach." -- Anonymous
"Those who cannot think, do." -- Myself :-)
- "It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex,
difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why
professors try so hard to avoid it." -- Page Smith
- "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded that he cannot do,
never does all he can." -- John Stuart Mill
- "I try not to let my schooling interfere with my education."
-- Mark Twain
- `Von Neumann himself said that you cannot do mathematics after 30. So,
I thought I'd take the easy way out and moved from theory to systems.'
-- H. T. Kung (SCS Distinguished Lecture)
- "The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately
connected with the prosperity of the State." -- Napoleon
- "People who don't count won't count." -- Anatole France
- "It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of
business over government, science, thought, and society, are much
bigger than non-free software." -- Richard Stallman
- "In mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them."
-- John von Neumann
- `Theory involves a lot of banging your head upon the wall; so, work
on many walls!' -- Avrim Blum (IC '98)
- "Those who have an excessive faith in their ideas are not well fitted
to make discoveries." -- Claude Bernard
- "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
- "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Alfréd Rényi
"A programmer is a device for turning coffee into bits." -- Myself :-)
- "There is too much blood in my caffeine system." -- Anonymous
- "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you
have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man
whom you meet on the street." -- David Hilbert
- "Why, a four-year-old child could understand this! Someone get me a
four-year-old child!" -- Groucho Marx
Quotations that I've heard spoken (instead of seen written) -- and therefore I
probably have not reproduced verbatim -- are enclosed in single (instead of
double) quote marks.
If you've read so far, you may also want to visit a collection with
more math quotes
(and links to even more). You may also want to have a look
here.
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