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The universe is still dead, but it already has the capacity of coming to life.
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Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
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I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,
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The correct reading of p written down by me in good faith is therefore 'I believe p', or some other words expressing the same fiduciary act.
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No sincere assertion of fact is essentially unaccompanied by feelings of intellectual satisfaction or of a persuasive desire and a sense of personal responsibility.
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Now, I am not suggesting that it is impossible to find natural laws; but only that this is not done, and cannot be done, by applying some explicitly known operation.
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While applied mathematics is object-directed, pure mathematics has no outside object; being concerned with objects of its own creation, it may be described as "object creating."
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All these difficulties are but consequences of our refusal to see that mathematics cannot be defined without acknowledging its most obvious feature: namely, that it is interesting.
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While the articulate contents of science are successfully taught all over the world in hundreds of universities, the unspecifiable art of scientific research has not yet penetrated to many of these.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
March 11, 1891
Died:
February 22, 1976
(aged 84)
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