Stanislaw Ulam Short Quotes

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Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

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I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

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According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.

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In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

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It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

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Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.

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I thought that the description of Don Quixote's fight with the windmills the funniest thing imaginable.

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It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

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The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

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The story that Dick Feynman could open safes whose combinations had been forgotten by their owners is true.

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I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

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Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

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What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

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It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

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As one sharpens a knife on a whetstone, the brain can be sharpened on dull objects of thought. Every form of assiduous thinking has its value.

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The first sign of senility is that a man forgets his theorems, the second sign is that he forgets to zip up, the third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

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It is still an unending source of surprise for me to see how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a sheet of paper could change the course of human affairs.

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For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.

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Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

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With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.

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Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

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