"One would be hard put to find a……" — Martin Gardner
"One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery--and more totally useless--than the perfect numbers."
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28 Quotes by Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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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,…
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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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More Depth Quotes
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,…
— Emilie Autumn
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
— Ernie Banks
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During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that…
— Ernie Banks
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
— Henry Adams
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
— Georges Bernanos
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