"Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit."
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"So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum."
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"Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines."
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"To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable."
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"Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books."
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"Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data, brought together in the full light of demonstration, and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence."
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"I am not a teacher. I am an awakener."
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"... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences."
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"Them as counts counts moren them as dont count"
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"More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited."
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"In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics."
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"Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie."
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"As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention."
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"André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil."
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"The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other."
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"Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most."
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"There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics."
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"The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation."
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"One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures."
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"Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?"
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