“ In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”
- William Gibson- Copy
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“ I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. ”
- Roger Jones- Copy
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“ I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ”
- John Nash- Copy
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“ The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. ”
- Albert Pike- Copy
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“ In a way, it's mathematically sure that if your poise is showing, if you are unhurried and unharried, you're on your budget. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
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“ Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ”
- Andy Richter- Copy
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“ As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. ”
- Abraham Robinson- Copy
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“ We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ”
- Milton Berle- Copy
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“ We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. ”
- Roger Bacon- Copy
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“ Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
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“ Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. ”
- G. H. Hardy- Copy
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“ The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. ”
- Friedrich List- Copy
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“ Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ”
- Thomas Robert Malthus- Copy
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“ A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth. ”
- O.G. Sutton- Copy
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“ If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. ”
- Carl Friedrich Gauss- Copy
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“ God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ”
- Arthur Cayley- Copy
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“ The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ”
- Marquis De Custine- Copy
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“ The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order. ”
- George Boole- Copy
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“ No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ”
- George Boole- Copy
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