Quotes of: Bertrand-russell Keyword

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

Tom G. Palmer

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Edward Witten

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.

Edward Witten

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Eugene Wigner

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

Freeman Dyson

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Felix Klein

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Carl Sandburg

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Bruce Schneier

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Herman Kahn

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

David Hilbert

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

Marcus du Sautoy

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Nathan Myhrvold

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Richard Dawkins

I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right.

Richard Dawkins

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Stephen Hawking

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

Richard Dawkins

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Alan Perlis