Approximation Quote by John von Neumann Download Open image “Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.” — John von Neumann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Approximation Complicated Inspirational Mathematician Programming Rationality Religion Truth is
Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other. — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make… — Paola Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature.… — A. D. Patel Copy Share Image
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation. — Lev Landau Copy Share Image
I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
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