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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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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."
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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."
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"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."
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"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."
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"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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"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
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"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
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"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle."
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"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
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"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
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"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."
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