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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer."
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"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
"It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them."
"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control."
"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
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