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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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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 - that is correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area. Furthermore, it must satisfy certain esthetic criteria - that is, in relation to how much it describes, it must be rather simple.”
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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“It is only proper to realize that language is largely a historical accident.”
― The Computer and the Brain
― The Computer and the Brain
“And' and 'or' are the basic operations of logic. Together with 'no' (the logical operation of negation) they are a complete set of basic logical operations—all other logical operations, no matter how complex, can be obtained by suitable combinations of these.”
― The Computer and the Brain
― The Computer and the Brain
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