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“On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.”

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Author:Christiaan Barnard

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”

“I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.”

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Author:Bill Mauldin

“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”

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Author:Peter Abelard

“It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.”

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Author:Richard Courant

“In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.”

“Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.”

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Book:Indiscrete Thoughts

Source: Indiscrete Thoughts

“Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.”

“Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”

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Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley