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If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same. — Arnold Sommerfeld
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. — Henri Poincare
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.… — Morris Kline
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… — Roger Bacon
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them. — Aristotle
It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from… — Francis Bacon
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes… — Charles Kettering
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom. — Alice Neel
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't… — Edwin Land
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human… — Irving Langmuir
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
Things are achieved when they are well begun. — George Eliot
In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they… — Carl von Clausewitz
I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's… — Don Mattingly
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. — Richard DeVos
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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