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We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and… — Blaise Pascal
At first we hope too much and later on, not enough. — Philibert Joseph Roux
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,… — James Clerk Maxwell
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become… — Martin Sheen
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters. — George Polya
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind. — Charles Babbage
The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this… — George Polya
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy
If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same. — Arnold Sommerfeld
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a… — G. H. Hardy
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because… — Charles Kettering

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