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Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding. (Quote by - Percy William Bridgman)

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. (Quote by - Martin Lewis Perl)

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. (Quote by - Henri Poincare)

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. (Quote by - W.S. Anglin)

Pure mathematics is the worl s best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. I s free. It can be played anywhere Archimedes did it in a bathtub. (Quote by - Richard J. Trudeau)

Mathematicians are like lovers... Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. (Quote by - Fontenelle)

Do not be troubled by your difficulties with Mathematics, I can assure you mine are much greater. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers! (Quote by R. W. Hamming)

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. (Quote by - Francois Viete)

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. (Quote by - Whitfield Diffie)

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. (Quote by - John McLaughlin)

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers? (Quote by - Jack Handy)

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. (Quote by - John Edensor Littlewood)

Mathematics is the music of reason. (Quote by - James Joseph Sylvester)

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. (Quote by - Steve Wozniak)

Mathematics is ma s own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. (Quote by - Edward Kasner)

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. (Quote by - Andre Weil)

Mathematics is as old as Man. (Quote by - Stefan Banach)

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. (Quote by - Christopher Columbus)

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. (Quote by - Gregory Bateson)

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. (Quote by - Alan Turing)

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. (Quote by - Nikola Tesla)

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. (Quote by - Frank Wilczek)

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god. (Quote by - Plato)

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