Arbitrary, Abstract Thoughts: Oh Very Funny

I saw this on CNN a little while ago. Today I had to do some hunting to find it again. Probably one of the funniest commercials ever.

I’ve watched this a whole bunch of times; I laugh every time.

A Few Quotes

"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
— John von Neumann

"Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty."
— Bertrand Russell

"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful."
— Jules Henri Poincaré

"Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics."
— Dean Schlicter

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
— Albert Einstein

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
— Albert Einstein

"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
— Benoit Mandelbrot

"Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
— Gottfried Whilhem Leibnitz

"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where ½ proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible."
— Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
— Amschel Mayer Rothschild

Friday, November 6, 2009

Oh Very Funny

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