"When intuition and logic agree, you are always right."
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"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."
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"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
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"Five out of four people have trouble with fractions."
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"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically."
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"Numbers rule the universe."
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"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons."
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
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"In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam."
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"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men."
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"It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it."
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"[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence."
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"To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world."
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"Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive."
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"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn."
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"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
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"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal."
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"Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality."
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"Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head."
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"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?"
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