#mathematics

How is an error possible in mathematics? ↗

— Henri Poincare

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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. ↗

— Simeon Poisson

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In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. ↗

— James Rainwater

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Mathematics is as old as Man. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? ↗

— Richard Courant

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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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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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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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