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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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Roger Bacon Quotes

I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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George Gordon Quotes

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
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Gottfried Leibniz Quotes

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
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Philip J. Davis Quotes

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
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Edward Gibbon Quotes

Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.
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Richard J. Trudeau Quotes

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
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Roger Bacon Quotes

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

It is not the job of mathematicians to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.
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Samuil Shchatunovski Quotes

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.
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Gregory Bateson Quotes

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
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Eric Bell Quotes

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
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Euclid Quotes

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.
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Hermann Hankel Quotes

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
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John Louis von Neumann Quotes

The different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
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Lewis Carroll Quotes

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Henri Poincaré Quotes

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Percy William Bridgman Quotes

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.
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W.S. Anglin Quotes

I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Stendhal Quotes

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
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Lewis Carroll Quotes

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.
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Tobias Dantzig Quotes

God is real, unless declared integer.
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Author Unknown Quotes

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.
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Morris Kline Quotes

Mathematics is the door and the key to the sciences.
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Roger Bacon Quotes

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.
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Phil Pastoret Quotes

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Arthur Stanley Eddington Quotes

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
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Eric T. Bell Quotes

In the binary system we count on our fists instead of on our fingers.
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Author Unknown Quotes

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Quotes

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically.
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Albert Einstein Quotes

If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory.
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W.S. Franklin Quotes

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.
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Ronald L. Graham Quotes

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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Paul Erdos Quotes

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
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S. Gudder Quotes

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i. e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed...[However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
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From Applied Optics Quotes

Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
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Dean Schlicter Quotes

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Pliny the Elder Quotes

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
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Harold Marston Morse Quotes

So 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.
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Francis Bacon Quotes

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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Albert Einstein Quotes

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
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Heinrich Hertz Quotes

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.
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Author Unknown Quotes

Infinity is a floor-less room without walls or ceiling.
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