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It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;… — Karl Popper
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always… — Albert Einstein
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. — Mark Victor Hansen
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of… — William Stanley Jevons
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and… — Charles Babbage
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
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
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can… — George Bernard Shaw
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and… — James Madison
In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization… — Erwin Schrodinger
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent to you, it… — Rajneesh
The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner. — Robert Kiyosaki
The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded… — Quentin Crisp
There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population… — Ernst Mayr
My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can… — Don Johnson
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform… — Alexander Hamilton

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