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by Max Wilhelm Dehn    ( comments )

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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so more

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted
to the objects of reality?

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by Bertrand Arthur William Russell    ( comments )

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.

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by John Von Neumann    ( comments )

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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

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by Philip J. Davis    ( comments )

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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into more

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful
theories.

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by Max Wilhelm Dehn    ( comments )

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Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be
presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be
presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

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by Max Wilhelm Dehn    ( comments )

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With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]

With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]

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by Max Wilhelm Dehn    ( comments )

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they more

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.

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by Max Wilhelm Dehn    ( comments )

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Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you
that mine are greater.

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you
that mine are greater.

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by Louis-ferdinand Celine    ( comments )

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Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
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Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists
nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum.
[Fr., Entre le penis et les mathematiques . . . il n'existe rien.
Rien! C'est le vide.]

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by Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev    ( comments )

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To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences
is to invite the sterility of a cow shut more

To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences
is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.

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