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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science." »Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
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"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision." »Barber B. Conable, Jr
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"...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art." »John W.N. Sullivan
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"Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one." »Charles De Gaulle
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"As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained." »Arthur Cayley
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"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." »Albert Einstein
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"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth." »O.G. Sutton
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"Form follows function." »Louis Henri Sullivan
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"I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign." »Andrew Schneider
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"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever." »Albert Einstein
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"There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function." »Georges Clemenceau
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"To live is to function. That is all there is in living." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." »Jack London
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"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." »Lester R Bittel
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"Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open." »Thomas Dewar
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"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." »Unknown
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." »Max Eastman
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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." »Unknown
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"The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life." »W. Edward Brown
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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager
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"The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment." »Dave Barry
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"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. (on those behind the 911 attacks)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought." »Sir Thomas Beecham
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"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer
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"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent." »Henry Commager
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"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." »An Wang
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"Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other." »Raymond Loewy
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