Mathematics Quotes
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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
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal
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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
S. Gudder
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
Plato
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
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Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
Georg Cantor
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The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, create...
Georg Cantor
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The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described abo...
Georg Cantor
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What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are no...
Georg Cantor
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful
Martin Luther
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The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and...
Leon Trotsky
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The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and ...
Leon Trotsky
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There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
Aristotle
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Aristotle
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
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Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
Albert Einstein
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
