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    I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide
    to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear
    the sound of closing doors. Everybody a mathematician?

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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes

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Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

by Aristotle Found in: Mathematics Quotes,
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It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

by P. W. Bridgman Found in: Mathematics Quotes,
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To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences
is to invite the sterility of a cow shut read 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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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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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they read 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.

by Max Wilhelm Dehn Found in: Mathematics Quotes,
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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.]

by Max Wilhelm Dehn Found in: Mathematics Quotes,
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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.

by Max Wilhelm Dehn Found in: Mathematics Quotes,
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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.

by Max Wilhelm Dehn Found in: Mathematics Quotes,
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