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347 Mathematician Quotes

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Being Confined Human Human Species
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Advance Affairs Could Days
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Done Flowing Good Good Man
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Ability Amount Avail Honor
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
Angry Enough Important Make
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Bad Bad Times Changes Fortune
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Ambition Boredom Die Exhaustion
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Adversity Diamond Dust Heaven
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Accomplish Alone Anything Commanding
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Accomplishment Builds Like Nothing
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Accomplishment Achieve Achievement Course
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Constantly Originality Quarrel Thing
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Element Fashion Great Silence
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Believe Collective Ignorance Individual
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Against Anything Deliberately Deserve
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Books Done Lying Magic
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Activity Insight Nothing Terrible
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Angels Music Said Speech
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Merit Novelty Originality Sincerity
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Honor Kind Know Man
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Acts Conscious Divine Faults
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Acorn Breeze Echoes Fall
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
Demand Economist Got Parrot
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Books Lies Past PastTime
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Am Bigger Deal Great
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Action Alone Doubt Ended
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Beginning Heart Knowledge Loving
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Biography Great Great Man Great Men
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

After Become Books Collection
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Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Appears Due Earth Moreover
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Know Knowledge True True Knowledge
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Am Disregard I Am May
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematicians Mathematics Written
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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Accept Another Anything Astronomy
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I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Aware Because Endeavour Extent
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Center Finally Himself Place
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Abandon Absurdity Apparent Because
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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Advisor Allowed Friends Had
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Made May Now Obscure
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Astronomer Careful Celestial Compose
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Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Began Consider Earth Having
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Also Although Arts Away
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First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

First First Of All Must Note
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The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Also Center Direction Earth
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For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Amount Any Climbs Daily
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

Deeper Earth Everywhere Fills
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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Arc Circle Earth Fact
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I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

Appropriate Bodies Circle Circular
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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Bulk Comparison Does Earth
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Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Anyone Believes Earth He
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