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• The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal William James
  Author: William James Quotes

  Keywords: correctness :: fervor :: ideal :: is :: mathematician :: measure :: of :: passion :: poet :: surely :: the :: this :: union :: with

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• I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato
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  Keywords: capable :: ever :: hardly :: have :: known :: mathematician :: of :: reasoning :: was :: who

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• Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
  Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes

  Keywords: but :: discovering :: has :: in :: it :: lies :: mathematician :: not :: pleasure :: said :: seeking :: some :: truth

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• As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect Edgar Allan Poe
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

  Keywords: all :: and :: as :: at :: been :: could :: have :: he :: mathematician :: mercy :: mere :: not :: of :: poet :: prefect :: reason :: reasoned :: the :: thus :: well :: would

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• As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect Edgar Allan Poe
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

  Keywords: all :: and :: as :: at :: been :: could :: have :: he :: mathematician :: mercy :: mere :: not :: of :: poet :: prefect :: reason :: reasoned :: the :: thus :: well :: would

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• The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. Alan Loewenstein
  Author: Alan Loewenstein Quotes

  Keywords: about :: and :: are :: beauty :: by :: different :: elegance :: historians :: in :: intuition :: is :: mathematician :: mathematicians :: means :: or :: physical :: physicist :: physicists :: quite :: talk :: the :: things :: thinking :: way :: what :: which :: worth

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• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. Albert Haldemann
  Author: Albert Haldemann Quotes

  Keywords: an :: and :: appreciates :: clumsy :: consider :: elegance :: essential :: further :: go :: he :: if :: ingredient :: is :: it :: mathematical :: mathematician :: mathematics :: not :: of :: one :: propose :: recognizes :: sees :: step :: the :: to :: traditional :: when

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• The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. Alexander Silbiger
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  Keywords: has :: highest :: human :: ladder :: mathematician :: of :: on :: reached :: rung :: the :: thought

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• In a way [Treece] is a mathematician of musical styles, ... His mind is very mathematical and that is the basis of music: math. King Britt
  Author: King Britt Quotes

  Keywords: and :: basis :: his :: in :: is :: math :: mathematical :: mathematician :: mind :: music :: musical :: of :: styles :: that :: the :: treece :: very :: way

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• A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Amy Bernstein
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  Keywords: coffee :: device :: for :: into :: is :: mathematician :: theorems :: turning

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• Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. George Eliot
  Author: George Eliot Quotes

  Keywords: every :: is :: mad :: man :: mathematician :: monster :: not :: of :: or :: other :: philosopher :: slave :: some :: the :: woman

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• Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Adrian Kurre
  Author: Adrian Kurre Quotes

  Keywords: before :: himself :: idol :: is :: mathematician :: proof :: pure :: the :: tortures :: whom

  Subject: Mathematics Quotes

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