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    Brian Greene
    “Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”
    ― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
    tags: mathematics, physics, truth
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    Alan M. Turing
    “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
    ― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence
    tags: distance, future, inspirational, progress, science, vision, work
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    Niels Bohr
    “Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”
    ― Niels Bohr, Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. 2)
    tags: particles, physics, quantum, reality, science, strange
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    Paul Lockhart
    “It is the story that matters not just the ending.”
    ― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
    tags: journey, math, mathematics, story
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    Werner Heisenberg
    “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
    ― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers
    tags: particles, physics, quantum, reality, science, strange
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    G.H. Hardy
    “Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.”
    ― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
    tags: art, mathematics
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    “The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.”
    ― Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts
    tags: achievement, apex, excitement, funny, humor, joke, math, mathematical, mathematicians, mathematics, science, upset
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    Robert Kanigel
    “A pure mathematician must leave to happier colleagues the great task of alleviating the sufferings of humanity.”
    ― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    ― Tagore
    tags: joy, service
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    Erich Maria Remarque
    “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
    ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
    tags: children, forlorn, lost, old, soldiers, sorrow, war
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    James Gleick
    “Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”
    ― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
    tags: chaos, chaos-theory, life, mathematics, paradigm, paradigm-shift, philosophy, physics, science, thomas-kuhn
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  • #15
    “One needs roots as well as flowers on a plant, Mr. Legge. However large and beautiful the flowers, if the earthy roots are destroyed there will be no more flowers.”
    ― Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
    tags: society
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    Mikhail Tal
    “Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.”
    ― Mikhail Tal
    tags: chess, mistakes
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