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“It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other wordsare we discovering Truth, or just wanking?”
“Luck is the grand equalizer.”
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
“And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you."He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil...”
“Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.”
“Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppyyour mathematics is.”
“One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about a proof, its flow becomes clear and it can becom...”
“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
“I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get the...”
“I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.”
“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
“Mathematics is the art of explanation.”
“My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.”
“...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook. In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sit...”
“The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall...”
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics fr...”
“A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.”
“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were ...”
