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It is better to have ideas that are not quite right than to have no ideas at all.

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Scientists, like professional golfers and piano players, should sometimes concentrate upon a task until they can perform it with professional skill.

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One who feels that these formulas are complicated need not be disturbed; automobiles are much more complicated and we use them.

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Just as a lass may walk through the grass and, seeing no snakes, believe that there are no snakes, so also a student, may pass through elementary calculus and, seeing only elementary functions may for integrals, believe that each elementary function necessarily has an elementary function for an integral.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Ralph Palmer Agnew

Ralph Palmer Agnew

Born: 1900
Died: 1986 (aged 86)
Bio: Ralph Palmer Agnew was an American mathematician.

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