Christopher Zeeman Quotes

• La habilidad técnica es el dominio de la complejidad, mientras que la creatividad es el dominio de la simplicidad.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Truth, Creativity, Knowledge

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• Las matemáticas no son aritmética. Aunque las matemáticas puedan haber surgido de las prácticas de contar y medir, en realidad se ocupan del razonamiento lógico en el que los teoremas -afirmaciones generales y específicas- pueden deducirse a partir de los supuestos de partida. Quizá sea la actividad intelectual más pura y rigurosa, y a menudo se la considera la reina de las ciencias.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Queens, Science, Logical Reasoning

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• The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Creer, Ciencia, Dar

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