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| #10251 | | Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
-- Neil Armstrong
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| #10252 | | How can you do 'New Math' problems with an 'Old Math' mind?
-- Charles Schulz
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| #10253 | | How many weeks are there in a light year?
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| #10254 | | How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere
else.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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| #10255 | | Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.
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| #10256 | | I am not an Economist. I am an honest man!
-- Paul McCracken
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| #10257 | | I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.
-- Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
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| #10258 | | I do hate sums. There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic an
exact science. There are permutations and aberrations discernible to minds
entirely noble like mine; subtle variations which ordinary accountants fail
to discover; hidden laws of number which it requires a mind like mine to
perceive. For instance, if you add a sum from the bottom up, and then again
from the top down, the result is always different.
-- Mrs. La Touche
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| #10259 | | I do not remember ever having seen a sustained argument by an author which,
starting from philosophical premises likely to meet with general acceptance,
reached the conclusion that a praiseworthy ordering of one's life is to
devote it to research in mathematics.
-- Sir Edmund Whittaker, "Scientific American", Vol. 183
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| #10260 | | "I don't think so," said Ren'e Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
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