Mathematics Quotes
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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
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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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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
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Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
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Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
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All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
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Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.
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Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
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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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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.
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If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.
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It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
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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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The creative principle of science resides in mathematics.
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Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.
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I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
