The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking,… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
