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John von Neumann
John von Neumann
1947·Budapest, Hungary

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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1958

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.

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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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