Quotes that make you think...

• "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." --Albert Einstein, physicist (1879 - 1955)
• "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist (1643-1727)
  • The meaning of this quote is clear in the Mathematics Geneology Project
  • This is a rephrasing of "We are like dwarfs standing upon the shoulders of giants, and so able to see more and see farther than the ancients." --Bernard of Chartres, philosopher (d. 1125)
• "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." --Alan Turing, mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
• "If you take whatever you are doing, and just to keep amused, start looking for options of quality, and pursue these options, just for their own sake, thus making an art out of what you are doing, you're likely to discover that you feel like a more fulfilled, interesting person and less like an object to the people around you, because the quality of your decisions effect you too. The quality tends to fan out like waves. It is likely to pass that feeling on to others, and in that way the quality tends to keep on going." --Adapted from Robert Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974
• "Man is the measure of all things. Man is not the source of all things, nor is he the passive observer of all things. The world emerges as the relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things - the measure of all things." --Adapted from Robert Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974
• "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)