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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  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) Mathematics is an escape from reality  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) Thoughts are steered in different ways  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) It is still an unending source of surprise for me to see how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a sheet of paper could change the course of human affairs  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to try more than if you are a pessimist  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) 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  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes) Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain  (Stanislaw Ulam Quotes)