Friday, 27 January 2012

Mathematics and philosophy: the most powerful combination

Have you ever thought why all famous mathematicians were also great philisophers?

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  1. Archimedes: Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

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  2. Rene Descartes: An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

    I think; therefore I am.

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  3. Isaac Newton: Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

    To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

    We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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  4. Blaise Pascal: All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

    I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

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  5. Pythagoras: The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.

    Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

    A thought is an idea in transit.

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