Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been […] I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.
— David Blackwell
David Hilbert
We must know, we will know.
Emilie Du Chatelet
From what has been said, it follows that the impossible is that which involves a contradiction, and the possible is that which does not.
Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
— Ludwig Boltzmann
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
— Henry Ford
- Special Cable to The New York Times
“Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but no simpler.” -Albert Einstein
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.
Paul Erdos
Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.