"The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit."
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
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"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
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"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."
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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
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"If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you."
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"Nature's great book is written in mathematics."
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"When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life."
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"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
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"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own."
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"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution."
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"Geometry existed before creation."
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"You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down."
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"Number was the substance of all things."
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"100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math."
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"It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
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"Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world."
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"Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . ."
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"Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness."
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"With me, everything turns into mathematics."
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