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The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. ↗

— James Newman

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The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. ↗

— James Newman

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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#improvement #like #managers #mathematicians #want

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#creating #god #mathematics #used #world

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. ↗

— Andre Weil

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Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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