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• Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

  Stefan Banach

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  Tags in Mathematics, Powerful

• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

  John Adams

  Topics in Art, Children, Father, Politics

  Tags in Mathematics, War, Poetry, Philosophy

• It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

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  Tags in Mathematics, School, Ignorance, Literature, Science

• There are no creeds in mathematics.

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker

  Topics in Religion, Truth

  Tags in Mathematics, Faith, Creed, Credo

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  Tags in Poetry, Mathematics

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  Felix Klein

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  Tags in Mathematics, Possible, Confused

• Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

  Felix Klein

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  Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  Gabriel Marcel

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  Tags in Music, Mathematics

• It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

  George John Boole

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  Tags in Mathematics, Ideas

• Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

  Stendhal

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  Tags in Mathematics

• I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

  Simon Newcomb

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  Tags in Mathematics

• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

  Simon Newcomb

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  Tags in Mathematics

• Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

  Simeon Poisson

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  Tags in Mathematics

• In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

  Georg Cantor

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  Tags in Mathematician, Mathematics

• The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

  Georg Cantor

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  Tags in Mathematics, Essence

• If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

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  Tags in Mathematics

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  G. H. Hardy

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  Tags in Self, Interested, Mathematics

• Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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  Tags in Programming, Mathematics

• There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so.

  Edwin Armstrong

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  Tags in Mathematics, Trouble, World