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• "Ganas is all you need."

  Jaime Escalante

  Knowledge, Math, Needs

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• I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

  Jaime Escalante

  Believe, Knowledge, Math

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• "I see it, but I don't believe it."

  Richard Dedekind

  Believe, Ontology, Statistics

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• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

  Eugene Wigner

  Science, Law, Miracle

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Math, Biology, Greater

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• If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.

  G. H. Hardy

  Sorry, Sorrow, Would Be

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• Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

  David Hilbert

  Ontology, Vitality, Connections

  "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.

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• Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

  David Berlinski

  Lying, Mathematics, Arithmetic

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Dream, Math, Science

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Mean, Math

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.626, Psychology Press

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• Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Giving, Trying, Definitions

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.155, Routledge

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• Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

  Bertrand Russell

  Facts, Study, Absence

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• What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.

  David Eugene Smith

  Education, Math, Discovery

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• The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Dream, Believe, Ignorance

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• Logic has made me hated in the world.

  Peter Abelard

  World, Made, Hated

  Peter Abelard (1977). “The Story of His Misfortunes and The Personal Letters”

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• If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.

  Lisa Randall

  Spiritual, Religious, Choices

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• Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

  Lisa Randall

  Doors, Views, Facts

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• The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Voting, Program, Minutes

  "Viewers 'Idol'-ize This Saucy Search for a Superstar". USA Today, June 18, 2002.

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• There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Running, Prejudice, Fields

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• The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

  Marquis de Custine

  Math, Complicated, Rigor

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• But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more.

  David Bentley Hart

  Fashion, Couple, Philosophical

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• Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Israel, Hatred, Doubt

  "A vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target" by Slavoj Žižek, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

  Louis L'Amour

  Path, Awareness, Many Paths

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.246, Bantam

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• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Spring, Eye

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• You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

  Akio Morita

  People, Understanding, Machines

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 202), 1986.

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