John von Neumann

John von Neumann (1903-1957) was a Hungarian American mathematician, physicist, and engineer. He developed mathematical frameworks for quantum physics, game theory, functional analysis, and self-replication.


Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Some people confess guilt to claim credit for the sin.

The justification of...[a] mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models.

There is no point in using exact methods where there is no clarity in the concepts and issues to which they are to be applied.

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

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.