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Matthias, Bernd T If you see a formula in the Physical Review that extends over a quarter of a page, forget it. It’s wrong. Nature isn’t that complicated.
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Maxwell, James Clerk (1813-1879) … that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. Scientific Papers 2, 244, October 1871.
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Mayer, Maria Goeppert (1906 -1972) Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. J. Dash, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, A Life of One’s Own.
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McDuff, Dusa Gel’fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel’fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences! Mathematical Notices v. 38, no. 3, March 1991, pp. 185-7.
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McShane, E. J. There are in this world optimists who feel that any symbol that starts off with an integral sign must necessarily denote something that will have every property that they should like an integral to possess. This of course is quite annoying to us rigorous mathematicians; what is even more annoying is that by doing so they often come up with the right answer. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, v. 69, p. 611, 1963.
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Mencken, H. L. (1880 – 1956) It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. Notebooks, ‘Minority Report’.
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Mermin, N. David (1935 -) Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. ‘Topological Theory of Defects’ in Review of Modern Physics, v. 51 no. 3, July 1979.
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892 – 1950) Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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Milton, John (1608 – 1674) From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o’er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb. Paradise Lost.
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Milton, John (1608-1674) Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
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Minkowski, Herman From henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, have vanished into the merest shadows and only a kind of blend of the two exists in its own right. In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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Minsky, Marvin Lee (1927 -) Logic doesn’t apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind’s I, 1981.
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Mitchell, Margaret …She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays. Gone With the Wind.
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Mittag-Leffler, Gsta The mathematician’s best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
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Moore, E.H. (1862 – 1932) We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: ‘The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features….’ In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Revisited, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1971.
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Mordell, L.J. Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does. In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1977.
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Moroney, M.J. The words figure and fictitious both derive from the same Latin root, fingere. Beware! Facts from Figures.
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Mueller, Ian [about Hypatia:] In an era in which the domain of intellect and politics were almost exclusively male, Theon [her father] was an unusually liberated person who taught an unusually gifted daughter and encouraged her to achieve things that, as far as we know, no woman before her did or perhaps even dreamed of doing. In G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.
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Napoleon (1769-1821) A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration. In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc.,1988.
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Nebeuts, E. Kim Teach to the the problems, not to the text. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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