Great Quotations

We may do a toolkit "report" for GIRO and if so we may (as last year) want some quotes to include. So I thought we could add quotes as we find them. Also, see the GreatCartoons page.

How Nature Works - The science of self organised criticality (Per Bak)

"Contrary to the general public perception, good science today very often comes from small groups.... ideas never occur collectively in the heads of 1,000 individuals"

"There was a very playful atmosphere, which is crucial for innovative scientific thinking. There would also be a constant stream of visitors passing through and contributing to our research by participating in the discussions, and sometimes by collaberating more directly with us. Good science is fun science."

"The beauty of a model can be measured as the range between its own simplicity and the complexity of the phenomena that it describes, that is, by the degree to which it has allowed us to condense our description of the real world"

Bertrand Russell

"Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different"

List of Mathematical Quotes

Maths Quotes

julesandjames blog

"If I have seen further than others, it is by treading on the toes of giants"

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. "

Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. "

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

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Last Chance to See"

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. "

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