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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. ↗

— David Hilbert

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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. ↗

— William Adams

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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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