#thematic

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— John Adams

#i #liberty #mathematics #may #must

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. ↗

— John James Audubon

#dull #enthusiastic #geography #hard #i

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

#almost #based #causes #could #exclusively

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ↗

— Daniel Bernoulli

#earth #mathematicians #physics #true #were

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#himself #idol #mathematician #proof #pure

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. ↗

— David Hilbert

#connection #in my opinion #indivisible #mathematical #opinion

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. ↗

— Felix Klein

#confused #countless #curve #enough #everyone

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. ↗

— Paul Klee

#concerns #emphasize #itself #like #mathematical

Mathematicians are born, not made. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#made #mathematicians

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. ↗

— John Pople

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