#mathematics

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded. ↗

— James Sanborn

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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. ↗

— James Sanborn

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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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