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Stanislaw Ulam Quotes: It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.
         

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.


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It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.



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What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.



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