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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#directors #films #modest #more #number

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#clear #closely #fact #first #first thing

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#anything #better #career #enthusiasm #gives

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#class #class clown #clown #fun #good

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

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