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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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"Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands." »The Book of the Dead
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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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"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure." »Buddha
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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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"To the pure, all things are pure." »Arabic Proverb
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." »Oscar Wilde
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"Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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 has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis." »Robert Heilbroner
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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"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 in poetry." »Bertrand Russell
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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." »Saint Augustine
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"I'm as pure as the driven slush." »Tallulah Bankhead
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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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"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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