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“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”
“Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!”
“Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy, - Ashley”
“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not by first ...”
“And I'll go even further and say that mathematics, this art of abstract pattern-making even more than storytelling, painting, or music - is our most quintessentially human art form. This is what o...”
“Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.”
“It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
“Mathematics is a terrible calling. Its as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. Theres a point near a black hole called the last stable orbit. Once you drop below that radius, no force in the...”
“Mathematics should be studied if only for that it puts the mind in order.”
“Who rebels with mathematics?”
“The mathematicians patterns, like the painters or the poets must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no ...”
“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.”
“Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.”
“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The gre...”
“I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.”
“a fresh mind adds a better mathematic ability #Bweqy”
“Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce to poss...”
“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asse...”
“They shouldn't be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.”
“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating s...”
