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Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.


Peter Høeg


#longing #mathematics #missing #negative-numbers #mathematics

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.


Albert Einstein


#mathematics

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!


Ivan Turgenev


#mathematics

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.


Malcolm X


#mathematics #schooling #mathematics

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.


Yōko Ogawa


#numbers #society #mathematics

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.


NASA


#rocket-science #science #science

In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000.


Will Manley


#mathematics

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.


Bill Gaede


#mathematics #physics #relativity #mathematics

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.


Thomas Mann


#mathematics






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