Just a note that today is Stephen Hawking's birthday and also Galileo's death day.


Galileo Galilei
Born: Feb 15th, 1564 (Pisa)
Died: Jan 8th, 1642 (Arcetri)


Stephen William Hawking
Born: Jan 8th, 1942 (Oxford)
Died: Should have died five decades ago.


Hawking's birth occurred on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death!

Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. 
~Gregory Bateson

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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. 
~Robert Heinlein

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You may be an engineer if your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place.

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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 Louis von Neumann

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Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
~Albert Einstein

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. 
~Albert Einstein

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