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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university…
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.…
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My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering…
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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,…
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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
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Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of…
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In mathematics there are no true controversies.
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In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without…
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It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for…
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes.…
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It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if…
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Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
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The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of…
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Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
— George Gaylord Simpson
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Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He…
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