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Mathematics is an art of human understanding.
William Thurston
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Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
William Thurston
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Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.
Vladimir Arnold
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Galileo Galilei
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Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.
Georg Cantor
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Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert
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Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.
Edward Kasner
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Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.
David Quammen
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Mathematics is a vast adventure its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
Dirk Jan Struik
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Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.
Felix Klein
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Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
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Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern.
Lynn Steen
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Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
Alfred Korzybski
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
Albert Einstein
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Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
L. E. J. Brouwer
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Mathematics is the language of size.
Lancelot Hogben
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specifications of definite particular things.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place it's worth spending time there.
Marcus du Sautoy
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Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
Leonard Adleman
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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.
Lipman Bers
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Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
Abraham Kaplan
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Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.
Hermann Weyl
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Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
Benjamin Peirce
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