He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world… - Stanislaw Ulam
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world…
- Stanislaw Ulam
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. - Stanislaw Ulam
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.
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations. - Stanislaw Ulam
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.
The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer. - Stanislaw Ulam
The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.
I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estra… - Stanislaw Ulam
I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estra…
I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text. - Stanislaw Ulam
I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.
Thoughts are steered in different ways. - Stanislaw Ulam
Thoughts are steered in different ways.
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. - Stanislaw Ulam
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. - Stanislaw Ulam
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
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