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Disraeli, Benjamin There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Twain. Autobiography.
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Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.- Albert Einstein
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Donatus, Aelius (4th Century) Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. ‘To the devil with those who published before us.’ [Quoted by St. Jerome, his pupil]
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930) Detection is, or ought to be, an exact sciences and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. The Sign of Four.
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Drer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Whoever … proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured. J Heidrich (ed.) Albrecht Drer’s schriftlicher Nachlass Berlin, 1920.
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Dryden, John (1631-1700) Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet. Notes and Observations on The Empress of Morocco. 1674.
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Dubos, Ren’J. Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them! In Mechanisms of Discovery in I. S. Gordon and S. Sorkin (eds.) The Armchair Science Reader, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
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Dunsany, Lord Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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Dyson, Freeman For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created. Mathematics in the Physical Sciences.
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Dyson, Freeman I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. Missed Opportunities, 1972. (Gibbs Lecture?)
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Dyson, Freeman The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It’s like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design. ‘Freeman Dyson: Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer’. Interview with Donald J. Albers, The College Mathematics Journal, vol 25, no. 1, January 1994.
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Eddington, Sir Arthur (1882-1944) I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons. The Philosophy of Physical Science. Cambridge, 1939.
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Edwards, Jonathon When I am violently beset with temptations, or cannot rid myself of evil thoughts, [I resolve] to do some Arithmetic, or Geometry, or some other study, which necessarily engages all my thoughts, and unavoidably keeps them from wandering. In T. Mallon A Book of One’s Own. Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1984, p. 106-107.
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Egrafov, M. If you ask mathematicians what they do, yo always get the same answer. They think. They think about difficult and unusual problems. They do not think about ordinary problems: they just write down the answers. Mathematics Magazine, v. 65 no. 5, December 1992.
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Eigen, Manfred (1927 – ) A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. Jagdish Mehra (ed.) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature, 1973.
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Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? [i.e. Brouwer vs. Hilbert] In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.
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Ellis, Havelock It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination. The Dance of Life.
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Ellis, Havelock The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. The Dance of Life.
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Erath, V. God is a child; and when he began to play, he cultivated mathematics. It is the most godly of man’s games. Das blinde Spiel. 1954.
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Erds, Paul A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
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