 | "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
- Albert Einstein
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| "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
- Albert Einstein
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| "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
- Bertrand Russell
, Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4. |
| "Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."
- Bertrand Russell
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| "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]. |
| "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
- Johann Von Neumann
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| "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
- Plato
, The Republic. |
| "Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
- Sir Arthur Eddington
, The Nature of the Physical World. |
| "The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
- Sir Arthur Eddington
, The Philosophy of Physical Science. |
| "We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'."
- Sir Arthur Eddington
, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (A. L. Mackay), 1977. |