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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading…
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Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of…
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
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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…
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the…
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also…
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,…
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery…
— Francis Bacon
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
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Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
— Knute Rockne
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In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
— Zubin Mehta
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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the…
— John F. Kennedy
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with…
— Howard Nemerov
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Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate…
— Paul Lynde
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
— Aldous Huxley
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You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be…
— Janette Rallison
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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck
— Claude C. Hopkins
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