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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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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 hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. ↗

— William Petty

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ↗

— Plato

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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible? ↗

— Henri Poincare

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I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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Mathematics is as old as Man. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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