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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.


Bertrand Russell


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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.


Bertrand Russell


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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.


Bertrand Russell


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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.


Immanuel Kant


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My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.


Dejan Stojanovic


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Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.


Dejan Stojanovic


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Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.


R.M. ArceJaeger


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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.


Pierre Simon De Laplace


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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.


Janos Bolyai


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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.


George Boole


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