Herbert Turnbull famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity. Doubtless this is due to the inevitable drawback that mathematical study is saturated with technicalities from beginning to end.
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Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a^2 - b^2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p^2 - q^2.
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Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Turnbull
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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
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All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.
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It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
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In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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