#thematic

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#racism #mathematics

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

#mathematics #physics #science #inspirational

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

#heads #how #live #mark #mathematical

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

— Stefan Banach

#creation #human #human spirit #mathematics #most

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

#hasten #like #man #mathematical #retard

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#analysis #concepts #mathematics #physics #rests

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#books #gave #i #logic #mathematics

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#between #i #interests #mathematics #philosophy

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. ↗

— Felix Klein

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