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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Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.
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I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
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All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
