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Mathematics Quotes by John Maynard Smith
- Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
- Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.
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- If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees
- Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel
- 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
- Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity… — Morris Kline
- So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare