Response 418

Quotes

  • The Nature of Science

    ‘Science is not about finding any kind of ultimate truth, it is about building hypotheses or models that we use to make useful predictions.’― JohnJoe McFadden

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  • The Power of Belief

    ‘The power of belief resides in its ability to do four things: belief creates vision; belief creates strength of will; belief creates resilience; belief ignites and activates.’― Eva de Goede

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  • Zeno

    ‘Zeno was concerned with three problems. These are the problems of the infinitesimal, the infinite and continuity. From his day to our own, the finest intellects of each generation in turn attacked these problems, but achieved, broadly speaking, nothing.’― Bertrand Russell

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  • Stupidity

    ‘Today for every competent expert on the side of the prophets there is an equally competent and opposite expert against them. If there is stupidity anywhere it is so evenly distributed that is has ceased to be a mark of distinction.’― Eric Temple Bell

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  • The Discovery of Pure Mathematics

    ‘Pure Mathematics was discovered by Boole in a work which he called The Laws of Thought.’― Bertrand Russell

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  • The Poet Mathematician

    ‘It is true that a mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician.’― Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass

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  • Confidence

    Found this one on the FB of Maddie Hinch. ‘Confidence is not “They will like me”. Confidence is “I will be fine if they don’t”. ― Christina Grimmie

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  • Tequila

    ‘Neem het leven als Tequilla, met een tikkeltje zout.’ ― Metejoor & Snelle

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  • Hamiltonian words

    “I have very long admired Ptolemy’s description of his great astronomical master, Hipparchus, as a labor-loving and truth-loving man. Be such my epitath.”  ― William Rowan Hamilton

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  • Blaise Logic

    “I have made this letter longer than usual because I lacked the time to make it short.”  ― Blaise Pascal

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