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They said it better
(some great quotes)

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Quotes

"In a time wavering between contradictory expectations and utopias – mostly marvels of technology, medicine and society waiting just around the corner, but equally of an atomic Day of Judgment, and earth providing standing room only for teeming humanity, and a cybernetic leisure society which doesn’t know exactly what to do with itself – sometimes a look backward is reassuring to establish continuity and to evaluate intellectual trends."

p. 3, Robots, Men and Minds, von Bertalanffy. 1967 - some things haven't changed since then...

"Carefully crafted initial estimates reward you not only with reduced computational effort, but also with understanding and increased self-esteem."

p. 348, Ch. 9 of Numerical Recipes in C, W. H. Press et al.

"Structurally, the Internet is closer to an ecosystem than to a Swiss watch."

p. 145, Linked. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. 2003

"Nature is surprisingly devoid of the classical Eucledian forms developed by Greeks to describe it."

Journal of Soil Science 91 ( 42): 187-192.

"...this follows the course of the histroy of probability where the abstract formulations arose out of the study of physical situations such as horse racing, card playing, and statistical mechanics."

p. 4, Probability and Stochastic Processes. Leo Breiman. 1969.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Albert Einstein

"Get the facts first and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Mark Twain

"Every fact is a myth. Every myth is trying to get to the truth. But there might not be any truth."

Not anyone in particular, acknowledgement to all who talked about philosophy with me.

"The sad fact of life is that solutions of perfectly nice differential equations can go to infinity in finite time."

Differential Equations and their Applications, M. Braun

"Biologists must consider the mathematician's view of logic, low dimensionality, and simplicity; mathematicians must recognize the biologist's tendency to believe that everything is important."

L.J. Gross, K.A. Rose, E. Rykiel, W. VanWinkle 1992. Individual-Based Modelling: Summary of a Workshop. In Individual-Based Models and Approaches in Ecology, D.L. DeAngelis and L.J. Gross (eds.), Chapman and Hall, New York.

"No model will ever embody the final truth."

J.A.J. Metz and A. M. de Roos 1992. Individual-Based Modelling: Summary of a Workshop. In Individual-Based Models and Approaches in Ecology, D.L. DeAngelis and L.J. Gross (eds.), Chapman and Hall, New York.

"We are privileged and burdened to live during the era when humans have become a dominant force on Earth."

Tilman, D. 1999. The ecological consequences of changes in biodiversity: a search for general principles. Ecology 80: 1455-1474.

"Eternity is never static."

Prof. Brooks

 

You can also find some great quotes in the Furman University Mathematical Quotation Server