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Mathematics, by exhibiting a body of truth which can live through millenniums without needed connections, and at the same time can grow in magnitude and range and interest, has given the human spirit new ground for believing in itself and for rejoicing in its power of consistent thought.

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Those who look on physics from the outside not infrequently have the feeling that it has forgotten some of its philosophical foundations. Even among its own workers the condition of the science has not entirely escaped notice.

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Mathematics and poetry lie, if not on, at least not far from the extremes, the one of systematic and the other of unsystematic thought, and thus are about as far removed as possible one from the other.

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He who discovers a fact or makes known a new law or adds a novel beauty to truth in any way makes every one of us his debtor. How beautiful upon the highway are the feet of him who comes bringing in his hands the gift of a new truth to mankind.

Robert Daniel Carmichael

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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

Robert Daniel Carmichael

Robert Daniel Carmichael

Born: March 1, 1879
Died: May 2, 1967 (aged 88)
Bio: Robert Daniel Carmichael was an American mathematician.
Known for:
  1. Diophantine Analysis (1915)
  2. The theory of relativity (1913)
  3. The Theory of Numbers (1914)
  4. The Logic of Discovery (1930)

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