"When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system."

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Source : "John Von Neumann, 1903-1957". Book edited by John C. Oxtoby, Billy J. Pettis and G. B. Price, 1958.

John von Neumann

#May Quotes #Language Quotes #Nervous Quotes

“Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.”
“Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.”
“I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.”
“In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?”
“I was never interested in anything, particularly. I didn't get through school. I was a layabout. So, I started working at a theater to earn some money, as a part-time job.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”

Source : "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,
“To the lover of the Lord Jesus Christ there can be nothing legal about baptism. It is simply the glad expression of a grateful heart recognizing its identity with Christ in death, burial, and resurrection. Many of us look back to the moment when we were thus baptized as one of the most precious experiences we have ever known.”
“Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.”

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