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