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• ...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

  Isaac Newton

  Principles, World, Mathematics

  Sir Isaac Newton (1962). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The system of the world”, p.397, Univ of California Press

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• Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

  Ibn Khaldun

  Mind, Geometry, Intellect

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• Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

  Pliny the Elder

  Powerful, Believe, Numbers

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1989). “Pliny: Natural History”

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• The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

  Herbert Wilf

  Tuning, Function, Subjects

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• The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Understanding, Would Be, Possibility

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• Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

  Margot Asquith

  Stupid, Piano, Dumb

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• [T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Ambition, Different, Branches

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• The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Honor, Spirit, Humans

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• Number was the substance of all things.

  Pythagoras

  Numbers, Substance, All Things

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• Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Science, Understanding

  Foreword to the book "A=B" by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, 1996.

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• No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Real, Computer, Investigation

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• If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.

  Danica McKellar

  Smart, Kissing, Lines

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• Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Wisdom, Forever

  "Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" by Robert Jungk, (p. 249), 1958.

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• Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

  Danica McKellar

  Mean, Science, Truth And Beauty

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• Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Queens, Arithmetic, Mathematics

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• It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

  Blaise Pascal

  Intelligence, Uncertain, Certainty

  Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce”, p.99

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• Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Teaching, Keys, Locks

  John C. Polkinghorne (2010). “One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology”, p.55, Templeton Foundation Press

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• But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

  Tom Lehrer

  Education, Knowledge, Important

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• We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Education, Smart, Intelligence

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• There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.

  Raoul Bott

  Two, Way, Firsts

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• Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

  Charles Darwin

  Discovery, Body, Guidance

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• When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

  Enrico Bombieri

  Sometimes, Wonder, Complicated

  "The Myth of Executive Functioning". Book by Leonard F. Koziol, p. 1, 2014.

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• So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.

  Paul Lockhart

  Art, Unique, People

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• Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

  Rene Descartes

  Giving, Give Me, Constructs

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• ... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

  Roger Bacon

  Mathematics

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