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“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

John Von Neumann

Reply, according to Dr. Felix T. Smith of Stanford Research Institute, to a physicist friend who had said "I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics," as quoted in The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1979) by Gary Zukav, Bantam Books, p. 208, footnote.

Mathematics , Understanding

“There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.”

John Von Neumann

As quoted in John Von Neumann : The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much More (1992) by Norman Macrae, p. 379

God

“If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.”

John Von Neumann

As quoted in Proportions, Prices, and Planning (1970) by András Bródy

Mathematics