All science requires mathematicsthe knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in usthis is the easiest of sciences. A fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it. For laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.
All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
Entre le pe nis et les mathe matiquesil n'existe rien. Rien! Between the penis and mathematicsthere's nothing. Nothing!
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As faras the laws of mathematics refer to reality, theyare not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Vanite desVanite s;Vanite de la ge ome trie. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of mathematics!
Beauty isthe first test: there isno permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
[There is] a delusion that macro-economics is both viableanduseful (a delusionencouraged by its extensive use of mathematics, which must always impress politicians lacking any mathematical education, and which is really the nearest thing to the practice of magic that occurs among professional economists).
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarizeonly be sure always to call it please 'research'.
There are two ways to teach mathematics.One is to take real pains toward creating understandingvisual aids, that sort of thing. The other is the old British style of teaching until you're blue in the face.
Let no one ignorant of mathematics enter here.
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beautya beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.
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