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> [Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/defined-broadly-enough-mathematics-encompasses-everything/)

[John Allen Paulos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-allen-paulos/)

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## More by John Allen Paulos

> [Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/uncertainty-is-the-only-certainty-there-is-and-knowing-how-to-live/)

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> [I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/i-used-to-be-surprised-and-even-depressed-when-i-met-someone-i-had/)

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> [The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/the-fashion-pages-have-always-baffled-me-in-my-opinion-the-articles/)

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> [In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/in-the-stock-market-you-can-be-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-or-wrong/)

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> [“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/the-nuclear-weapons-on-board-just-one-of-our-trident-submarines/)

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> [When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/when-asked-why-he-doesn-t-believe-in-astrology-the-logician-raymond/)

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> [Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/defined-broadly-enough-mathematics-encompasses-everything/)

[John Allen Paulos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-allen-paulos/)

> [So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/so-many-see-themselves-as-aggrieved-so-few-see-themselves-as/)

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> [“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/i-sometimes-think-it-would-be-beneficial-if-people-thought-of-each/)

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> [Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/mathematicians-are-a-bit-like-the-laconic-vermonter-who-when-asked-if/)

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> [Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/mathematics-is-no-more-computation-than-typing-is-literature/)

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> [There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/there-is-something-inhuman-and-vaguely-pornographic-about-statistics/)

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> [Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/certainty-a-strange-ferris-wheel-of-a-statement/)

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> [One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/one-must-give-up-the-fantasy-of-a-perspicacious-gunslinger-investor/)

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> [How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/how-many-pizzas-are-consumed-each-year-in-the-united-states-how-many/)

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