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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
"Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics."
"I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."
"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure."
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