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"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human"
Alan Turing, Mathematician
"I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others, all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them"
Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician
"I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy"
Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician
"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company"
Alan Turing, Mathematician
"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom"
Georg Cantor, Mathematician
"Virtue is harmony"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge"
Alan Turing, Mathematician
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition"
Alan Turing, Mathematician
"I believe that at the end of the century, the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted"
Alan Turing, Mathematician
"I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened"
Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas"
G. H. Hardy, Mathematician
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics"
G. H. Hardy, Mathematician
"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible"
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician
"The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence"
James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematician
"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down"
Paul Erdos, Mathematician
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