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A woman in politics is like a donkey doing calculus.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
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