"Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has."

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Source : "The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity". Book by Heinz Pagels. Chapter 3, p. 94, 1988.

Stanislaw Ulam

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“Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.”
“By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.”
“In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.”

Source : "William Mapother Exclusive Interview ANOTHER EARTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.
“With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it”

Source : Michael Reagan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.edition.cnn.com. September 1, 2004.
“Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.”
“God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.”
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

Source : The Man Upstairs (1914) title story
“We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.”

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