Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried LeibnizRead
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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
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.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
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