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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted, so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely, have been the fertile source of their possessions"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be: seek simplicity and distrust it"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind, seeks in the most part in vain"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
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