"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."
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"If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb."
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"If there's no struggle, there's no progress."
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"Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty."
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"I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn."
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"The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word."
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"An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation."
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"Science is simply common sense at its best."
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"Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel."
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"The solution of every problem is another problem"
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
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"The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience"
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"I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
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"Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy."
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"Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero."
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"The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"Number rules the universe."
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"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
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"In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem."
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