Quotes

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ----- Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced social science is indistinguishable from common sense. ----- me

Excuse me, to make it easier for me to understand could you explain it more abstractly? ----- Kosaku Yosida

We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important thing. ----- Posted outside the mathematics reading room, Tromso University, an epigraph in "Stochastic Differential Equation" by Bernt Oksendal.

You understand the dead cat? But... you... you can't really understand the physics without understanding the math. The math tells how it really works. That's the real thing; the stories I give you in class are just illustrative; they're like, fables, say, to help give you a picture. An imperfect model. I mean - even I don't understand the dead cat. The math is how it really works. ----- from a Coen brothers movie "A Serious Man"

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ----- Felix Mendelssohn

People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite. ----- Felix Mendelssohn