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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."

"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."

"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."

"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."

"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."

"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."

"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."

"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."

"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"

"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

"If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws."

"It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details."

"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."
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