"Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language."
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
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"The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method"
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"I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize."
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"There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible."
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"Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles."
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"God forever geometrizes."
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"Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up."
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"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
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"I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return."
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"If I can't picture it, I can't understand it."
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"We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately."
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
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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."
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"I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me."
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"The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards."
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"I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go."
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
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