John Von Neumann/career and Abilities

Famous quotes containing the words von, neumann, career and/or abilities:

“Gray, dear friend, is all theory,
But green the golden tree of life.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“What a lesson here for our world. One blast, thousands of years of civilization wiped out.”
—Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)

“Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)