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“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate.”

Quote by Stanislaw Ulam

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Stanislaw Ulam was a renowned mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematics, physics, and computer science. Born on April 13, 1909, and passing away on May 13, 1984, Ulam's research had a profound impact on the development of nuclear weapons, stochastic process theory, and computer science. more

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“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”

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“For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.”

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“We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.”

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“It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.”

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“It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.”

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“As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.”

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