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Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

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We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. ↗

— Roger Ascham

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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. ↗

— Janos Bolyai

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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. ↗

— Georg Cantor

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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. ↗

— Georg Cantor

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