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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." »Isaac Asimov
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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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"California, the department store state." »Raymond Chandler
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"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." »Andrew Carnegie
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple
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"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler
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"Look at the Justice department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"mathematics is the queen of the sciences." »Carl Friedrich Gauss
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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 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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"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." »Albert Einstein
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality." »Hermann Weyl
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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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"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department." »Jeff Meyer
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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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"As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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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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"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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"How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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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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"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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