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... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware read more
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. read more
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very read more
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.
That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
