Jacques Hadamard famous quotes
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The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.
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The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.
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To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.
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Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.
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Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.
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Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
-- Jacques Hadamard
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First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
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Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
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Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
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On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
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The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
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