The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.