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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless…
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The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and…
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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming…
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving…
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The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This…
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The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely…
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Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
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Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'
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This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we,…
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an…
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
— Albert Einstein
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
— Felix Klein
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning…
— Edward Charles Titchmarsh
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It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it…
— Bill Gosper
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
— Farkas Bolyai
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Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was…
— Rene Dubos
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The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which…
— Albert Einstein
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