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#1

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art

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#2

“Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: education, learning, play

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“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: art, cybernetics, science

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#4

“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”
― Elon Musk

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#5

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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#6

“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: education, inspiration, inspirational, learning

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#7

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
― Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys

tags: complex, curiosity, determination, homer-hickam, learning, october-sky, rocket-boys

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#8

“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
― Elon Musk

tags: knowledge, learning, reddit, science, understanding

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#9

“The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: freedom, learning, work

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#11

“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: learning, math, mathematical, problem-solving, thinking

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#12

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: humor, perspective, science

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#13

“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
― John von Neumann

tags: life, math, maths

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#14

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.”
― Galileo

tags: astronomy, cosmology, geometry, math, nature, science

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“No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: education, math, mathematics

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#16

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

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#17

“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science

tags: computer-science, programming

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#18

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
― Donald Ervin Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms

tags: optimization, software

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#19

“The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.”
― Haruki Murakami , The Elephant Vanishes

tags: concentration, experience, vision

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#20

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”
― Alexander Graham Bell

tags: motivation, productivity

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#21

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: psychology, science, social-behavior

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#22

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

tags: 1998

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#23

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
― Noam Chomsky

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#24

“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.”
― Stanislaw Lem

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#25

“The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.”
― Stanisław Lem, Hospital of the Transfiguration

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#26

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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#27

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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#28

“Mathematical problems, or puzzles, are important to real mathematics (like solving real-life problems), just as fables, stories and anecdotes are important to the young in understanding real life”
― Terence Tao, Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective

tags: mathematics, real-life, wisdom

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#29

“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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#30

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom

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