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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." »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." »Albert Einstein
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"May not Music be described as the mathematics of sense, and mathematics as the Music of reason?" »James Joseph Sylvester
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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 their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." »Francis Bacon
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"mathematics is the queen of the sciences." »Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." »Galileo Galilei
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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." »Bertrand Russell
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"mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis." »Robert Heilbroner
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality." »Hermann Weyl
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"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." »Albert Einstein
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"mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God." »Herbert Westren Turnbull
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"Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry." »Stephen Hawking
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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." »Henry David Thoreau
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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." »Eric Temple Bell
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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." »Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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"mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations." »Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
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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." »Bertrand Russell
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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." »Alfred North Whitehead, N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
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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." »Bertrand Russell
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"Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon
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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." »Vannevar Bush
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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." »Bertrand Russell
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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." »Voltaire
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"My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. mathematics is just another way of predicting the future." »Ralph Abraham
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"mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." »Bertrand Russell
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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." »H.L. Mencken
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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." »M. C. Escher
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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, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art." »John W.N. Sullivan
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