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    // QUOTATIONS



carmaquotes[0]= " 'The universe contains at most `two to the power fifty' grains of sand.' - Archimedes ";

carmaquotes[1]= " 'All professions look bad in the movies... why should scientists expect to be treated differently?' - Michael Crichton, 1999 ";

carmaquotes[2]=" ' ...it is no doubt important to attend to the eternally beautiful and true. But it is more important not to be eaten.' - Jerry Fodor ";

carmaquotes[3]=" 'The idea that we could make biology mathematical, I think, perhaps is not working, but what is happening, strangely enough, is that maybe mathematics will become biological!' - Greg Chaitin, Interview, 2000 ";

carmaquotes[4]=" 'The future is already here.  It's just not very evenly distributed.' - William Gibson ";

carmaquotes[5]=" 'Harald Bohr is reported to have remarked 'Most analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities they want to use, but cannot prove.' - D.J.H. Garling ";

carmaquotes[6]=" 'What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.' - Werner Heisenberg, 1963 ";

carmaquotes[7]=" 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!' - T.H. Huxley ";

carmaquotes[8]=" 'Such reversals have led the veteran Silicon Valley technology forecaster Paul Saffo to proclaim: 'never mistake a clear view for a short distance'.' - John Markoff ";

carmaquotes[9]=" 'The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.' - Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630 ";

carmaquotes[10]=" 'On quantum theory, I use up more brain grease than on relativity.' - Albert Einstein ";

carmaquotes[11]=" 'Rigour is the affair of philosophy, not of mathematics.' - Bonaventura Cavalieri ";

carmaquotes[12]=" 'I will be glad if I have succeeded in impressing the idea that it is not only pleasant to read at times the works of the old mathematical authors, but this may occasionally be of use for the actual advancement of science.' - Constantin Caratheodory, 1936 ";

carmaquotes[13]=" 'A heavy warning used to be given [by lecturers] that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety. Some pictures, of course, are not rigorous, but I should say most are (and I use them whenever possible myself).' - J. E. Littlewood, 1885-1977 ";

carmaquotes[14]=" 'Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood a single word.' - Niels Bohr ";

carmaquotes[15]=" 'The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.' - John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946 ";

carmaquotes[16]=" 'Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.' - J. W. Tuckey, 1962 ";

carmaquotes[17]=" 'Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?' - Oliver Heaviside ";

carmaquotes[18]=" 'Mathematical proofs like diamonds should be hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.' - John Locke ";

carmaquotes[19]=" 'The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'evidence'.' - Alan L. Leshner ";

carmaquotes[20]=" 'All physicists and a good many quite respectable mathematicians are contemptuous about proof.' - G. H. Hardy, 1877-1947 ";

carmaquotes[21]=" 'A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.' - Jean Chretien ";

carmaquotes[22]=" 'The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.' - James Joseph Sylvester, 1814-97, Second LMS President";

carmaquotes[23]=" 'Bulls don't run reviews. Bulls of 25 don't marry old women of 55 and expect to be invited to dinner. Bulls do not get you cited as co-respondent in Society divorce trials. Bulls don't borrow money. Bulls are edible after they have been killed.' - Ernest Hemingway, 1925 ";

carmaquotes[24]=" 'The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.' - Arturo Rosenblueth and Norbert Wiener ";

carmaquotes[25]=" 'What is particularly ironic about this is that it follows from the empirical study of numbers as a product of mind that it is natural for people to believe that numbers are not a product of mind!' - George Lakoff and Rafael E. Nunez ";

carmaquotes[26]=" 'Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries -- not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.' - Albert Einstein, 1945 ";

carmaquotes[27]=" 'Look miss, if I disagree with Darwin, he's not going to send me to hell.' - Anonymous ";

carmaquotes[28]=" 'Mathematics is the language of high technology. Indeed it is, but I think it is also becoming the eyes of science.' - Tom Brzustowski, NSERC President, 2000 ";

carmaquotes[29]=" 'When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?' - John Maynard Keynes ";

carmaquotes[30]=" 'Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.' - Alan Turing, 1912-1954 ";

carmaquotes[31]=" 'Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have only made this letter so long because I did not had time to make it shorter.)' - Blaise Pascal ";

carmaquotes[32]=" 'That is a brute, cold, hard fact of the universe. When you pull the battery out of your computer, it shuts off. When you end a life, it shuts off. And I think that's just it.' - Brian Greene ";

carmaquotes[33]=" 'As Aldous Huxley opined, the strict materialist cannot yet derive Shakespeare from the advanced biochemistry of mutton.' - Richard Gallagher ";

carmaquotes[34]=" 'Progress had always been made, but the nature of the progress could never be divulged.' - Franz Kafka ";

carmaquotes[35]=" 'Even mathematics would not be entirely safe. (Apparently, in the early 1900's, one legislator in a southern state proposed a bill to redefine the value of pi as 3.3 exactly, just to tidy things up.)' - Paul Churchland ";

carmaquotes[36]=" 'Everything in nature adheres to the cone, the cylinder and the cube.' - Paul Cezanne ";

carmaquotes[37]=" 'Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.' - Rene Decartes ";

carmaquotes[38]=" 'A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.' - Paul Erdos ";

carmaquotes[39]=" 'Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions.' - Johann Wolfgang Goethe ";

carmaquotes[40]=" 'Logic is the anatomy of thought.' - John Locke ";

carmaquotes[41]=" 'Mountains are not cones, clouds are not spheres, trees are not cylinders, neither does lightening travel in a straight line. Almost everything around us is non-Euclidean.' - Benoit Mandelbrot ";

carmaquotes[42]=" 'Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.' - Henri Poincare ";





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