Quotes by Stanislaw Ulam

Stanislaw Ulam

… there’s nothing new under the sun – everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.

Nothing New

Nothing New Under The Sun

Sun

According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.

Stars

Study

Three

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

Girl

Romance

Years

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.

Brilliant

Complicated

Self Confidence

By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.

Country

Russia

Years

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

Challenges

Fortresses

Mathematics

Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

Impossible

Mathematics

Technology

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.

Groups

Realizing

Years

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Able

Learning

Simple

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

Certain

Special

Technique

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Certain

Challenges

Chance

Change

Civilization

Complicated

Connections

Country

Creative

Defining

Different

Different Ways

Elegant

Exactly Is

Feelings

Fifty

Formulas

Fortresses

Games

Girl

Giving

Giving Up

Groups

Hundred

Ideas

Important

Impossible

Infinite

Knowing

Latin

Learning

Littles

Mathematical

Mathematician

Mathematics

Matter

May

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Moments

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Nothing New Under The Sun

Nuclear

Numbers

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Quotes by Stanislaw Ulam

Stanislaw Ulam

… there’s nothing new under the sun – everything can be traced back to Archimedes or even earlier.

According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.

Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.

By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.

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

Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

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