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What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than…
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters…
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
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It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or…
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I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study…
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...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...…
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The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious…
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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up…
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The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,…
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct…
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of…
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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it…
— John Calvin
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Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile…
— Unknown Author
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One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown,…
— Gary Cooper
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by…
— Karl Marx
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses…
— Albert Einstein
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain…
— Eartha Kitt
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There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe…
— Francis Crick
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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
— Albert Einstein
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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little is worse than a man who never attempts to…
— Keorapetse Phelelo
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