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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

— Paul Lockhart

I'm a British psychological illusionist, which is a term I made up, but I do these kind of mind-reading and psychological experiments. There's nothing…

— Derren Brown

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the outer perimeter…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer…

— Walter Lippmann

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at…

— Michael Atiyah

I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying…

— Carlo Rovelli

“I’d later read up on it, because understanding something meant being able to handle it, and my problems back then had been ones I…

— wildbow

I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!)…

— Tom Lehrer

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

— Dr Seuss

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

— Andy Wachowski

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

— Woody Allen