"Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here."
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"Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation."
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"Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead."
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"Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music."
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"The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes."
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"The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated."
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"Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words."
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"Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes ."
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"The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture."
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"... nets, grids, and other types of calculus."
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"The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics."
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"You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger."
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"Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning."
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"The mathematics of high achievement"
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"But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead."
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"This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something."
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"We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial."
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"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation."
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"I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry."
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"I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft."
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