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• Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Air, Space

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Men, Lord, Made

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• Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
  [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Names, Giving

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• Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

  Honore de Balzac

  Numbers, Intellectual, Mankind

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• [A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

  Evan Esar

  Simple, Circles, Scientist

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• The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

  Galileo Galilei

  Circles, Law, Triangles

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

  Louis C. K.

  Education, Men, Fishing

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• Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

  Pythagoras

  Ideas, Pythagorean Theorem, Numbers

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• Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

  Steven Wright

  Zero, Black, Results

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• When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Numbers, Measurement

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Cat, Science

  Quoted in John D Barrow Pie in the Sky, Counting, Thinking and Being (1992).

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• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

  G. H. Hardy

  Silly, Mean, Ideas

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 8 (1940)

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• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Littles, Study

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

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• The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

  John G. Kemeny

  Science, Men, Civilization

  John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

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• In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

  Hermann Hankel

  Tears, Add, Generations

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• Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern.

  Lynn Steen

  Teaching, Views, Discipline

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• He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

  Plato

  Plato, Understanding, Language

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• Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

  David Hilbert

  Simple, Games, Simplicity

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• A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

  Karl Weierstrass

  Poet, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press

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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Confidence, Art, Science

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Three

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Sensual

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

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