Ulam Quotes
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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 tracedback 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
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
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
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 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
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