"The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."
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"Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap."
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"I would rather be right than rigorous."
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"The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."
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"All science requires mathematics."
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"Mathematics is the music of reason."
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"[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore."
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"Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people."
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"Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense."
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"Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not."
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"... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry)."
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"My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future."
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"I feign no hypotheses."
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"If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics."
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"Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me."
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
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"No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks."
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"To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending."
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"Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick."
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"A mathematical proof must be perspicuous."
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