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1950·Budapest, Hungary
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
John von Neumann·1947If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Alfred Adler·1930Man knows much more than he understands.
Carl Sagan·1996The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth — never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.
