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Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.
Author: Anonymous
Source: "Like the Crest of a Peacock" by G.G. Joseph
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry,
and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the
beautiful.
Author: Aristotle
Source: Metaphysica (3-1078b)
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.
Author: Roger Bacon
Source: Opus Majus (pt. 4)
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which
marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other
sciences.
Author: Roger Bacon
Source: Opus Majus (pt. 4)
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The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
Author: Eric Temple Bell
Source: title of book, about mathematics
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
Author: P.W. Bridgman
Source: The Logic of Modern Physics
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I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear
the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?
Author: James Caballero
Source: "CAIP Quarterly" (2)
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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can
be perceived but not explained.
Author: Arthur Cayley
Source: "The World of Mathematics" edited by J.R. Newman
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Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
[Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien.
Rien! C'est le vide.]
Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Source: Voyage au bout de la nuit
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To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences
is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
Author: Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev
Source: "Calculus Gems" by G.F. Simmons (198)
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Source: De Revolutionibus
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Revolutions never occur in mathematics.
Author: Michael Crowe
Source: Historia Mathematica
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Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Author: Charles R. Darwin
Source: "Mathematical Maxims and Minims" edited by N. Rose
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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful
theories.
Author: Philip J. Davis
Source: in "Scientific American" magazine (p. 51-59)
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Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be
presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
Author: Max Wilhelm Dehn
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
Author: Max Wilhelm Dehn
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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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.
Author: Max Wilhelm Dehn
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you
that mine are greater.
Author: Max Wilhelm Dehn
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted
to the objects of reality?
Author: Max Wilhelm Dehn
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Author: Max Wilhelm Dehn
Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.
Author: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Source: Philosophical Essays (no. 4)
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Author: Evan Esar
Source: None
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Author: Paul Erdos
Source: None
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
Author: John Von Neumann
Source: None
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