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“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
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“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”
S. Gudder Quotes |
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“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics”
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“Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes”
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“Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.”
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“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
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“Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.”
Anonymous Quotes 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.”
Aristotle Quotes Source: Metaphysica (3-1078b)
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“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.”
Roger Bacon Quotes 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.”
Roger Bacon Quotes Source: Opus Majus (pt. 4)
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“The Handmaiden of the Sciences.”
Eric Temple Bell Quotes 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.”
P.W. Bridgman Quotes 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?”
James Caballero Quotes Source: "CAIP Quarterly" (2)
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“As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can
be perceived but not explained.”
Arthur Cayley Quotes 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.]”
Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes 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.”
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev Quotes Source: "Calculus Gems" by G.F. Simmons (198)
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“Mathematics is written for mathematicians.”
Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes Source: De Revolutionibus
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“Revolutions never occur in mathematics.”
Michael Crowe Quotes Source: Historia Mathematica
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“Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.”
Charles R. Darwin Quotes 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.”
Philip J. Davis Quotes 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.”
Max Wilhelm Dehn Quotes Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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“With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]”
Max Wilhelm Dehn Quotes 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.”
Max Wilhelm Dehn Quotes 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.”
Max Wilhelm Dehn Quotes Source: "The Mathematical Intelligencer" (vol. 5, no. 2)
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