"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
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"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."
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"To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas."
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"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful."
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"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."
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"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
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"He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side."
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"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it."
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"Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research."
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"The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom."
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"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."
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"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics."
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"The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics."
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"Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?"
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"And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated."
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"All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics."
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"As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment."
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"In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown."
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"The more you know, the less sure you are."
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