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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
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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…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
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It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs…
— Stefan Banach
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
— Martin Gardner
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I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few…
— Steven Chu
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We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about…
— John B. Conway
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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in…
— Antony Garrett Lisi
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You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position,…
— Delphine de Vigan
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