#mathematics

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. ↗

— John James Audubon

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I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

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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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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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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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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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