top of page
"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Machine quotes

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."

"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
Explore more quotes by Henri Poincare

"To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."

"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."

"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"

"It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details."
bottom of page