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• Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Understanding, Way, Wells

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Broken, Mind, Teeth

  "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: A Meeting with Medusa".

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• Training was one thing, reality another.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Reality, Training, One Thing

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.199, RosettaBooks

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• Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Thinking

  "On the Constitution of the Church and State".

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• Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

  Michael Crichton

  Fantasy, Theory

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

  Francis Crick

  Strong, Reading, Math

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• To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Praise, Natural

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• All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

  e. e. cummings

  Ignorance, Knows

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.102, Grove Press

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• Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

  Philip J. Davis

  Sunday, Typical, Weekdays

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• In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.

  Philip J. Davis

  Ideas, Study, Mathematics

  Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.441, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

  Humphry Davy

  Thinking, Language, Instruments

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• A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.

  Morris H. DeGroot

  Data, Problem, Inference

  Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish (2002). “Probability and Statistics”, Addison Wesley

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• Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

  Lester del Rey

  Sin, Misinterpretation, Humans

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• The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Would Be, Development

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Differences, Making A Difference

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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• The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

  John Dewey

  Luck, Degenerates, Doe

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.198, 谷月社

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• Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

  Philip K. Dick

  Stimulus

  "Time Out of Joint".

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• Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Sometimes, Disgrace

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, Ideas, Machines

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• It's not what happened but how it is told.

  Philip K. Dick

  Happened

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• Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

  Philip K. Dick

  Logic, Deck, Whole

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• Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Way, Ifs

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Add, Goes On

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “Beyond Lies the Wub”

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• Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

  Joe Gayton

  Problem, Humans, Appropriate

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