Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

John von Neumann


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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

John von Neumann


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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John von Neumann

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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work - that is correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area. Furthermore, it must satisfy certain esthetic criteria - that is, in relation to how much it describes, it must be rather simple.

John von Neumann


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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

John von Neumann

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Se la gente non crede che la matematica è semplice, è solo perché non capisce quanto è complicata la vita.

John von Neumann


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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

John von Neumann


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