"Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas."
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"Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone."
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"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god."
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"There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them."
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"I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive."
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"Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense."
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"In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years."
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"The best defense against logic is ignorance."
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"Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance."
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"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room."
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"Logic is a poor guide compared with custom."
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"I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives."
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"The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them."
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"I feign no hypotheses."
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"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
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""Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted."
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"You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster."
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"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."
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"My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject, but I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time."
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"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
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