Stefan Banach famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
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Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.
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I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.
-- Stefan Banach
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As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
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The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.
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An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on
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Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.
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Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
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