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Science Quotes by George Polya
- Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and…
- There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain…
- Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.
- If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.
- Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as…
- There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov