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“The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.”

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Paul Halmos was a renowned mathematician known for his contributions to functional analysis and probability theory. His research had a profound impact on the development of modern mathematics. more

“I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.”

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Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.”

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Book:Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)

Source: Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)

“There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.”

Ifs Three Mathematics Very Good Triangles

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow when you grow up... profound curiosity happens when children are young. I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race... Once you are sophisticated, you know too much- far too much. Pauli once said to me, "I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.".”

“I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."”

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Author:G. H. Hardy

“On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.”

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Author:George Sarton

“Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.”

Asks Mathematics

Author:William Mace

“Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?”

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Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

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