David Blackwell quotes
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“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.”
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“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.”
-- David BlackwellSource : Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.
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“I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.”
-- David Blackwell
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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications
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Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media
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