Mathematical Structure Quotes by Martin Gardner

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• Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
• If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
• If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
• All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
• Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
• Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
• The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

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