The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — 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, people know that it deals with numbers, figures, with relations, operations, and that its formal procedures involving axioms,… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment. — 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 disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug. Chess sometimes plays a similar role. In their unhappiness over the events of this world, some immerse themselves in a kind of self-sufficiency in mathematics. (Some… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain. — 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 disconnected from… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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