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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines."
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"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
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"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural."
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"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."
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"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."
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"Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine."
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"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine."
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"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
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"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."
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"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
Science
"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
Machine
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
Immortality
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Mathematics
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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