"All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over……" — Martin Gardner
"All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics."
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28 Quotes by Martin Gardner
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would…
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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…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid…
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter,…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what…
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is…
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There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and…
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to…
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It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on…
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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth…
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