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The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. ↗

— Izaak Walton

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God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. ↗

— Andre Weil

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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. ↗

— Andre Weil

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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ↗

— William Gibson

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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. ↗

— Charles Hermite

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Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

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