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Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce to possessions, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as the space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze; it is as incapable of being restricted within assigned boundaries or being reduced to definitions of permanent validity, as the consciousness, the life, which seems to slumber in each monad, in every atom of matter, in each leaf and bud and cell, and is forever ready to burst forth into new forms of vegetable and animal existence.


James Joseph Sylvester


#life

Mathematics is the art of explanation.


Paul Lockhart


#art

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.


G.K. Chesterton


#poetry #poets

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.


Blaise Pascal


#christian #education #god #mathematicians #mathematics

Life is about solving for x


Jane Lescarbeau


#mathematics #philosophy #solve #life

Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is.


Leslie Lamport


#nature

Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.


Benjamin Bratt


#again #being #choreographed #dance #doing

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.


Alfred de Vigny


#author #composition #double #fact #hand

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.


Diane Cilento


#essays #good #i #loved #mathematics

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.


Mos Def


#how #know #learn #mathematics #rhyme






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