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.
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.
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…
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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