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“Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not simpler”. A. Einstein.
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"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility”. A. Einstein.
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“Mathematics is like
sexual pleasure, orgasm, only lasting longer”.As quoted by Cédric Villani: André Weil.
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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity
with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer". B.Greene.
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"One cannot help having the gut feeling that a real understanding of our universe must somehow involve E_8
[a Lie group comprising a system of 240 vectors in 8-dimensional space]". Bertram Kostant:.
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"Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about,
nor whether what we are saying is true". Bertrand Russell.
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"The moment will come when the sun will shine
only on a planet of free men, knowing only reason as their master". Codorcet , 1794.
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"Applied mathematics is not a definable scientific field but
a human attitude". Courant.
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“Every problem in the calculus of variations has a
solution, provided the word solution is suitably understood”. D. Hilbert.
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"Reason is, and ought to be the slave of the passions”. David Hume.
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“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.
We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown”. Eddington.
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“The simplicities of natural laws come through the
complexities of the language we use for their expression”. Eugene Wigner.
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"..ten thousand years from now there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be
judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics". R. Feynman.
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“Since all models are wrong the scientist cannot obtain a "correct" one by excessive elaboration.
On the contrary following William of Occam he should seek an economical description of natural phenomena”. G. Box 1976.
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“Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist
so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity”. G. Box. 1976.
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“In truth mathematics can be called the Pleasure Garden
of the myriad forms, the Erudite Ocean of Hundred Schools of Philosophy”. Xu Guangpi.
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"Applied mathematics (is) the bridge connecting pure
mathematics with science and technology". Prager.
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“I have finished a monument more lasting than bronze
and higher than the royal structure of the pyramid”. Scarf.
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“Truth and Clarity are Complementary”. Niels Bohr
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“It is the glory of science to be of no use…[its true aim]…
is to honor of the human spirit”. Carl Gustav Jacobi
