"The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."
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"Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be."
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show."
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"There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves."
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"I don't believe in mathematics."
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"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment."
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"To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it."
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"Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!"
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"I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it."
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"Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos."
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"Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar."
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"In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory."
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"Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And matter is made of particles. It's made of electrons and neutrons and protons. So the entire universe is made out of particles. Now what are the particles made out of They're not made out of anything. The only thing you can say about the reality of an electron is to cite its mathematical properties. So there's a sense in which matter has completely dissolved and what is left is just a mathematical structure."
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"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."
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"All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation."
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"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
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"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
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"Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose."
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"The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit."
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
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