133 Quotes About English-scientist

  • Author Gilbert White
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    I make no doubt but there are three species of the willow-wrens: two I know perfectly; but have not been able yet to procure the third.

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  • Author Gilbert White
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    Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms, and that is the viper.

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  • Author Gilbert White
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    The mention of hews put me in mind that there is a total failure of that wild fruit, so conducive to the support of many of the winged nation.

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  • Author Stephen Wolfram
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    You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

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  • Author Stephen Wolfram
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    The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.

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  • Author Stephen Wolfram
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    I guess the good news is that we didn't make any big mistakes in the design of earlier versions of Mathematica that we'd have to go back on now.

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