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John von Neumann1903–1957

John von Neumann on science

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

John von Neumann

Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in “A meeting with Enrico Fermi” in Nature 427 (22 January 2004) p. 297

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