It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. - John Von Neumann
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
- John Von Neumann
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. - John Von Neumann
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, w… - John Von Neumann
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, w…
Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to pr… - John Von Neumann
Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to pr…
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine whi… - John Von Neumann
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine whi…
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John Von Neumann
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. - John Von Neumann
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. - John Von Neumann
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. - John Von Neumann
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
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