Mathematical Discovery Quotes by John von Neumann

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• The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant…
• The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more…
• It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field…
• You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.
• With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
• Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark…
• Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been…
• I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.
• Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he…
• All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
• You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do,…
• Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

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