Science Quotes

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"The problem of constructing a machine to behave like the brain is really a problem of programming."
John von Neumann
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"The aim of all mathematical endeavor is to advance human understanding of the natural world."
John von Neumann
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"You can't do experimental physics without mathematics."
John von Neumann
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"The future of science is in the hands of those willing to ask unpopular questions."
John von Neumann
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"The secrets of nature are written in the language of mathematics."
John von Neumann
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"The human mind is the greatest computer that has ever been invented."
John von Neumann
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"The goal of science is not to answer all questions, but to ask better ones."
John von Neumann
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"The real test of an idea is how it performs in the real world."
Ralph Baer
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"Science demands precision, but it also demands imagination."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"Science progresses through curiosity and rigorous questioning."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"The greatest discoveries come from asking the right questions, not knowing all the answers."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"Understanding the physics of small things opens doors to infinite possibilities."
Carver Mead
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"The seeds of tomorrow's revolution are in today's fundamental research."
Carver Mead
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"The universe is written in the language of mathematics and physics."
Carver Mead
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"Science is the systematic study of how the universe actually works."
Carver Mead
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"Science teaches us to question, observe, and iterate."
Donna Dubinsky
"The science of operations, as derived from mathematics, is a science of itself."
Ada Lovelace
"The mind has its laws and its principles of action, like the body."
Ada Lovelace
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"Moore's Law is really more of an observation than a law of physics."
Gordon Moore
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"Physics will eventually limit Moore's Law."
Gordon Moore
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"Every calculation we performed was a step toward understanding what machines could become."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"The greatest discovery was that human logic and machine logic could dance together."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"The computer was our partner, but the human mind was the true innovation."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"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, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena."
John von Neumann
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"I think it is important to emphasize the continuity between mathematics and the physical world."
John von Neumann
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"One can build a universal machine that can compute anything that is computable. The existence of such a machine leads to novel results about what can and cannot be proved."
John von Neumann
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"We are convinced that to understand the operations of nature, we must learn to think like nature itself."
John von Neumann
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"The universe is a mathematician and we are merely trying to learn its language."
John von Neumann
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"We stand at the threshold of understanding how the mind itself can be understood mathematically."
John von Neumann
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"The structure of atoms tells us something profound about the structure of reality itself."
John von Neumann