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

To live is to die. — Cliff Burton

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations. — Stanislaw Ulam

We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain. — Stanislaw Ulam

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal. — Stanislaw Ulam

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

There's nothing new under the sun - everything can be traced
back to Archimedes or even earlier. — Stanislaw Ulam

It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning. — Julia McNair Wright

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment. — Stanislaw Ulam

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me. — Stanislaw Ulam

Rota's personality is compatible with mine. — Stanislaw Ulam

I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text. — Stanislaw Ulam

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer. — Stanislaw Ulam

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God. — John Bunyan

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. — Stanislaw Ulam

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

The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up. — Adam Ulam

At night, when all melted into a uniform blackness, Hrathen could almost see Elantris's grandeur. — Brandon Sanderson

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. — William Shakespeare

Thoughts are steered in different ways. — Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics is an escape from reality. — Stanislaw Ulam

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam

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

But how can anyone truly understand another's suffering unless he has felt the wound being made and the moment trust died? — Amy Tan

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days. — Bjork

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality. — Gian-Carlo Rota

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

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. — Stanislaw Ulam