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• Charles Babbage:

  Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

• E. T. Bell:

  'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

• Ada Lovelace:

  Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen

• Eric Weinstein:

  There is one place left in which open racism can be practiced institutionally in the U.S. today, th

• Carl Friedrich Gauss:

  When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkne

• Andrew Wiles:

  I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days

• Ronald Fisher:

  Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

• Alan Turing:

  Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

• Claude Shannon:

  Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

• Leonhard Euler:

  For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing a