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«It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
(Biographer, Educator, Mathematician, Writer)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
disconcerting, Marks, perennial, sciences, youthfulness
«If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics,
Study
| Keywords:
Plato, studies
«I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.»
«Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
austere, possesses, rightly, sculpture, viewed
«I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
accidental, in return, Spinoza
«Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
austere, cold, posse, posses, rightly, sculpture, sculptures, supreme, viewed
«I don't believe in mathematics.»
«How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
admirably, appropriate, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, Human thought, independent
«Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
axiom, axioms, definitions, exact, explained, inaccurate, insufferable
«Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
entirely, forthwith, Frenchmen, their own language, translate
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