Mathematics Quotes
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I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.
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The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.
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Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.
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I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
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When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.
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Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
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The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
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What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
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The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.
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Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.
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Mathematics is as old as Man.
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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
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I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.
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I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
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A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'
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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
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In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
