Computers are far better at formal computation and formal reasoning, but humans are far better mathematicians.
~ William Thurston
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Computers are far better at formal computation and formal reasoning, but humans are far better mathematicians.
~ William Thurston
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
~ Niels Bohr
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The history of mankind and the place of the economy in it, is not, as the evolutionists would have it, an account of unconscious growth and organic continuity. Such an approach would necessarily obscure some aspects of economic development vital to men in the present phase of transition. For the dogma of organic continuity must, in the last resort, weaken man’s power of shaping his own history.
― Karl Polanyi
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It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.
~ Edmund Cooper
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First delight, then instruct.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
~ Toni Morrison
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Practical people have little idea of the practical ability required to write a large book, and especially a large history.
~ Walter Bagehot
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I learned a lot from architecture.
~ Dieter Rams
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