Stanislaw Ulam

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5 total works indexed

1. The Monte Carlo Method

   · 1949 · cited 4,534x

2. Photodynamic therapy – mechanisms, photosensitizers and combinations

   · 2018 · cited 1,959x

3. Chemistry of persulfates in water and wastewater treatment: A review

   · 2017 · cited 1,746x

4. Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

   · 2015 · cited 1,335x

5. 2022 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery

   · 2022 · cited 946x

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Quotes

• “Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.”
• “The first sign of senility is that a man forgets his theorems, the second sign is that he forgets to zip up, the third sign is that he forgets to zip down.”
• “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...”
• “Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”
• “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.”
• “It is still an unending source of surprise for me to see how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a sheet of paper could change the course of human affairs.”

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