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"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."

John von Neumann· b. 1903View quote →

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🇭🇺John von Neumann

Science

1903–1957

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

"I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!"

"What is intelligible in history can be formulated only with reference to problems and conceptual constructions which themselves arise in the flux of historical experience."

"The theoretical aspect. Here interest centers on:"

"Those Chetniks up there who are now firing on us will have joined us within a year."

"Systems at each level of integration function as wholes with respect to their parts and parts with respect to higher level wholes."

"He had a roly poly physique but a wonderful left foot and he was a brilliant finisher. I would put Puskas in any list of all time greats."

"...the ultimate objective of teaching physics is promoting a sound physical thinking and not merely tackling a list of topics."

"The learner is the key entity and occupies the nucleus of the systems complex of education."

"The Bards of Wales as translated by Watson Kirkconnell"

"T' explains the previous success of T, that is, all the unrefuted content of T is included in the content of T'; and"

"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction."

"It is shameful that a government, whose president and prime minister claim to be good Catholics, deports its Jewish citizens to Hitler's concentration camps."

"We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding."

"Theodor Herzl: Visions of Israel, Video Lecture by Dr. Henry Abramson"

"It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time."

"If we want to make a discovery, we have to take a risk, since everything new was discovered by accident or by the fact that somebody took a chance and went ahead when there wasn't 100 percent safety for the solution."

🇭🇺Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner

Art

1840–1899

"Many disasters can be traced to our linguistic shortcomings. Millions of money and multitudes of men have been sacrificed in order to save the prestige of a mistake in translation committed "by authority."

"This Hungarian Van Cliburn impressed me from the outset with a deep and confident involvement in the music, a capacity for both power and delicacy, and a preference for passion over absolute accuracy."

"When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, – but never England."

🇭🇺Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka

Art

Expressionism

1853–1919

"Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone."

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."

"I think it is a sad reflection on our civilisation that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes on inside our souffles."

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