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Aug 13, 2004 03:06
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality (
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Some cool quotes
htown1397
August 14 2004, 16:25:25 UTC
"Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way."
- George Polya
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
"Never say of a branch of mathematics, 'There's something I don't need to know.' It always comes back to haunt you."
- Charles Rickart
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
- David Hilbert
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
- Gottfried Willheld von Leibniz
"The elevator to success is out of order; You'll have to take the stairs like everyone else"
- Anonymous
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
- Albert Einstein
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idget68
August 14 2004, 18:48:57 UTC
Love it :), especially the Dave Barry one...haha
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence
-Bertrand Russell
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination
-Bertrand Russell
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-Edith Sitwell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric
-Bertrand Russell
I'm a B. Russell fan :P
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- George Polya
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
"Never say of a branch of mathematics, 'There's something I don't need to know.' It always comes back to haunt you."
- Charles Rickart
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
- David Hilbert
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
- Gottfried Willheld von Leibniz
"The elevator to success is out of order; You'll have to take the stairs like everyone else"
- Anonymous
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
- Albert Einstein
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence
-Bertrand Russell
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination
-Bertrand Russell
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-Edith Sitwell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric
-Bertrand Russell
I'm a B. Russell fan :P
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