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Johann von Goethe
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all
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Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Albert Einstein
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Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
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John Adams
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geograhy, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give thei
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Johann von Neumann
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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Bertrand Russell
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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John Adams
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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Francis Bacon
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Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Johann von Goethe
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all
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M. C. Escher
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
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Isaac Asimov
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University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.
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Albert Einstein
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give the
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
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Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
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Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
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Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
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"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960)
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...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function,
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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"All constants are variables." - Murphy's Law of Mathematics
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"So here we are, victims of mathematics.." - Londo Mollari
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"Music is mathematics for the soul." - Anon.
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"Simple Mathematics" By Algy Brarr
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"I Love Mathematics" - Adam Up.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
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Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.
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