#thematic

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

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#put #till

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human thought #ladder #mathematician #reached

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

— Andre Weil

#first #mathematicians #people #rate #second

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

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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

#enough #feel #had #largely #last

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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