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Mathematics Quotes by Edward Kasner
- The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
- Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
- Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
- When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But…
- Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
- Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition.…
- Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.
- There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i…
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- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole