Adrien-Marie Legendre Quotes
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
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When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
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[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
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The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
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There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.
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Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
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In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
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My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.
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All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
