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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.


Abraham Robinson


#as far as #even #facts #far #i

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.


Susan Sontag


#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.


Norman Spinrad


#chooses #concerns #cultural #deal #given

Mathematics is the music of reason.


James Joseph Sylvester


#music #reason

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.


James Joseph Sylvester


#dream #feels #life #mathematician #mathematics

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.


James Joseph Sylvester


#human intelligence #intelligence #intelligible #laws #mathematics

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.


William Gibson


#being #billions #children #concepts #consensual

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.


Charles Hermite


#mathematics #rather #servants #than

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.


Max Bill


#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.


Marcus V. Pollio


#harmonic #him #mathematical #music #proportion






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