Stanislaw Ulam

According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.

— Stanislaw Ulam

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

— Stanislaw Ulam

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.

— Stanislaw Ulam

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are…

— Stanislaw Ulam

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its…

— Stanislaw Ulam

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics is an escape from reality.

— Stanislaw Ulam

One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really…

— Stanislaw Ulam

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one…

— Stanislaw Ulam

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical…

— Stanislaw Ulam

... there's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.

— Stanislaw Ulam

I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the…

— Stanislaw Ulam

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try"…

— Stanislaw Ulam

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

— Stanislaw Ulam

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become…

— Stanislaw Ulam

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Rota's personality is compatible with mine.

— Stanislaw Ulam

I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a…

— Stanislaw Ulam