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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. ↗

— David Chalmers

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Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. ↗

— Walter Kohn

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