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+ Men will always be making mistakes as long as they are striving after something. During such a long and difficult struggle the researcher might be tempted again and again to abandon his efforts as vain and fruitless, except that every now and then a light strikes across his path which furnishes him with irrefutable proof that, after all his mistakes in taking one by-path after another, he has at least made one step forward towards the discovery of the truth that he is seeking. The steadfast pursuance of one aim and purpose is indispensable to the researcher and that aim will always light his way, even though sometimes it may be dimmed by initial failures.

+ Max Planck

+ 1919 Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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+ Mathematicians usually have fewer and poorer figures in their papers and books than in their heads.

+ William Thurston

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+ On Proof And Progress In Mathematics (1994)

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+ https://www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/199/thurston.pdf

+ 'Why not tell me in words instead of in symbols? Mathematics is just a language, and I want to be able to translate the language'. But I do not think it is possible, because mathematics is _not_ just another language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. It is in fact a big collection of the results of some person's careful thought and reasoning. By mathematics it is possible to connect one statement to another.

+ But I do not think it is possible, because mathematics is _not_ just another language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. It is in fact a big collection of the results of some person's careful thought and reasoning. By mathematics it is possible to connect one statement to another.

+ But I do not think it is possible, because mathematics is _not_ just another language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. It is in fact a big collection of the results of some person's careful thought and reasoning

+ // https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/courses/lx550/readings/feynman1-4.pdf

+ But I do not think it is possible, because mathematics is not just another language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. It is in fact a big collection of the results of some person's careful thought and reasoning

+ Richard Feynman, 1967

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+ A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformation of equations by the use of calculus. He is primarily an individual who is skilled in the use of symbolic logic on a high plane, and especially he is a man of intuitive judgment in the choice of the manipulative processes he employs.

+ Vannevar Bush - As We May Think, 1945

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+ The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects. Rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of American Society. Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

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+ Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

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+ Robert F. Kennedy (1966)

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+ Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

+ Robert F. Kennedy (1966)

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+ Live by the compass and not the clock.

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+ A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

+ James Madison (1822)

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+ Live by the compass and not the clock.

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+ Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.

+ Section 2. Congress shall make no law granting monopolies on ideas, knowledge, or inventions, or prohibiting the free use thereof.

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+ A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformation of equations by the use of calculus. He is primarily an individual who is skilled in the use of symbolic logic on a high plane, and especially he is a man of intuitive judgment in the choice of the manipulative processes he employs.

+ Vannevar Bush - As We May Think, 1945

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+ Live by the compass and not the clock.

+ Greg Bourgond (2010)

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+ What I cannot create, I do not understand.

+ Richard Feynman

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+ - Abraham Lincoln

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+ If I had a penny everytime I saw a quote from a great man widely shared that was never actually written by that man, I'd have billions of pennies.

+ Abraham Lincoln

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+ If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

+ Attributed to Tesla, but uncertain

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+ The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

+ Richard Feynman

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+ The surprising thing is not that every man has his price, but how low it is.

+ * Commonly attributed to Napoleon but origin unknown

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+ A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

+ * Alan Perlis

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+ If you agree with everything you've ever said, are you even trying?

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+ If you agree with all of your past posts, are you even trying?

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+ Live by the compass and not the clock.

+ * Greg Bourgond (2010)

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+ * Nikola Tesla's autobiography "My Inventions"

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+ This I did constantly until I was about seventeen when my thoughts turned seriously to invention. Then I observed to my delight that I could visualize with the greatest facility. I needed no models, drawings or experiments. I could picture them all as real in my mind. Thus I have been led unconsciously to evolve what I consider a new method of materializing inventive concepts and ideas, which is radically opposite to the purely experimental and is in my opinion ever so much more expeditious and efficient. The moment one constructs a device to carry into practise a crude idea he finds himself unavoidably engrost with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality.

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+ My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever, the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. Invariably my device works as I conceived that it should, and the experiment comes out exactly as I planned it. In twenty years there has not been a single exception. Why should it be otherwise? Engineering, electrical and mechanical, is positive in results. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data. The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time.

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+ * My Inventions

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+ * Nikola Tesla

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+ https://www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/199/thurston.pdf

+ On Proof And Progress In Mathematics (1994)

+ ON PROOF AND PROGRESS IN MATHEMATICS (1994)

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+ ON PROOF AND PROGRESS IN MATHEMATICS (1994)

+ Mathematicians usually have fewer and poorer figures in their papers and books than in their heads.

+ Mathematicians usually have fewer and poorer figures

+ in their papers and books than in their heads.

+ William Thurston

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+ Do you hear them talking of genius, Degna? There is no such thing. Genius, if you like to call it that, is the gift of work continuously applied. That's all it is, as I have proved for myself.

+ from My Father Marconi

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+ If nature has made any one thing less susceptible, than all others, of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an Idea; which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the reciever cannot dispossess himself of it. It’s peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who recieves an idea from me, recieves instruction himself, without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point; and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot in nature be a subject of property.

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+ If nature has made any one thing less susceptible, than all others, of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an Idea; which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the reciever cannot dispossess himself of it. it’s peculiar character too is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. he who recieves an idea from me, recieves instruction himself, without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, recieves light without darkening me. that ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benvolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point; and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement, or exclusive appropriation. inventions then cannot in nature be a subject of property.

+ * Thomas Jefferson (1813)

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