I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Well done is better than well said.
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