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- ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans
- [P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique… — G. H. Hardy
- While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — Unknown Author
- It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — Unknown Author
- In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale
- Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. — Henry John Stephen Smith
- The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
- ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce
- Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of… — Bertrand Russell
- The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead
- I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some… — John Pople
- A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics. — G. H. Hardy