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Top 30 Stanislaw Ulam Quotes (2025 Update)

Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Mathematics is an escape from reality.”

1. “Mathematics is an escape from reality.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to “try” more than if you are a pessimist.”

2. “It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to “try” more than if you are a pessimist.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.”

3. “Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.”

4. “It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.”

5. “In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “I’m an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...”

6. “I’m an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.”

7. “Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.”

8. “The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.”

9. “One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”

10. “Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.”

11. “In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?”

12. “Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.”

13. “As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.”

14. “It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.”

15. “It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Rota’s personality is compatible with mine.”

16. “Rota’s personality is compatible with mine.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.”

17. “For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.”

18. “The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.”

19. “What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call “habitual luck”.”

20. “There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call “habitual luck”.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.”

21. “According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt “strange inside” two or three times during my life.”

22. “Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt “strange inside” two or three times during my life.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.”

23. “I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Thoughts are steered in different ways.”

24. “Thoughts are steered in different ways.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.”

25. “I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.”

26. “Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.”

27. “Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”

28. “Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.”

29. “Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.”

30. “With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another.”

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Stanislaw Ulam Quote: “I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.”

31. “I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.”

— Stanislaw Ulam

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