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• The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem.

  Israel Gelfand

  Believe, Problem, Mathematical

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• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Knowledge, Views, Simplicity

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• Mathematics is a language

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Math, Language, Mathematics

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• It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

  William Gibson

  Matter, Ifs

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• Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Details, Narrative

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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• The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...

  James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

  Work, Learning, Math

  "Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", Vol. 42, (p. 467), 1890.

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• The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

  William Godwin

  Elements, Logic, Mathematics

  William Godwin (2006). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries”, p.589, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Shells, Kernel

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1957). “Poems of Goethe: a sequel to Goethe, the lyrist”

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• It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, World, Figures

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• She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

  Ellen Goodman

  Prejudice

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• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  Bill Gosper

  Errors, Pigs, Independence

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• GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Simple, Action, Impossible

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• The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Intuition, Rigor, Sanctions

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• A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

  Peter Hammill

  Book, Looks, Answers

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• He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

  Peter Hammill

  Two, Trying, Daydreaming

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• Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Airplane, Math

  "Guide to Essential Math: A Review for Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Students". Book by Sy M. Blinder, p. 16, February 14, 2013.

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• Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

  Hermann Hankel

  Flower, Eye, Discovery

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• Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

  George Harrison

  Doors, Going Out, Earth

  Song: The Inner Light

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• Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  Stephen Hawking

  Doe, Mathematical Models, Bother

  A Brief History of Time ch. 11 (1988)

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• To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

  Michael Healy

  Data, Weakness, Firsts

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• Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

  Joseph Heller

  Order, Worry, Delay

  1961 Catch-22, ch.17.

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• The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Math, Typical, Information

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.13, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

  William Ernest Henley

  Unconquerable Will, Chance, One Tree Hill Love

  "Invictus" l. 5 (1888)

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• Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

  Frank Herbert

  Religion, Progress, Shields

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Science, Thinking, Radio Waves

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