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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities – potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry – that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
Author: Gregory Benford, Timescape
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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
Author: Harold Marston Morse
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One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers…
Author: Heinrich Hertz
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In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.
Author: Hermann Hankel
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To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology.
Author: Hilda Phoebe Hudson
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Mathematics – the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
Author: Isaac Barrow
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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
Author: Ivars Peterson
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The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
Author: John Kemeny
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Author: John Louis von Neumann
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[T]he different branches of Arithmetic – Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife – what’s the answer to that?
Author: Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars. That’s subtraction.
Author: Mae West
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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
Author: Mark Twain
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The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, ‘refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings,’ and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.
Author: Morris Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture
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Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.
Author: Percy William Bridgman, The Way Things Are
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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
Author: Philip J. Davis
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Pure mathematics is the world’s best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It’s free. It can be played anywhere – Archimedes did it in a bathtub.
Author: Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines
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If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
Author: Richard Preston
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Author: Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can’t even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.
Author: Ronald L. Graham
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