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347 Mathematician Quotes

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

Soul Way Body Lives
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Proof Mind Truth People
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Truth Time Feel Shame
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I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

Believe Service Christ Solace
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In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

Theology Authority Philosophy Reason
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Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

Proper Experiments Conclude
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It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

Wait Reader God Observer
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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

Planets Ellipses Sun Focus
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Eyesight should learn from reason.

Eyesight Learn Reason
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The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Earth Inhabited Borne Stars
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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Nature Uses Possible Anything
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The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Creator Wisdom Order Harmonics
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Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

Qualities Quantities
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Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

Geometry Eternal Mind God
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Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

Science Process Thinking God
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The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

Men Arrive Matters Worthy
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

Miracles Scientific Question
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God is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

God Creator Nature Nothing
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Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Geometry Beauty World
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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Prefer Criticism Intelligent Masses
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My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

Desire Perceive God World
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Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.

See Hear Human mind Understand
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In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

Dream Typical Rational
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Madness Important Person World
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos

Rationality Thought Limit Person's
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Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

Computer Solve Knowledge Ideas
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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Discovery Career Life Love
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity

Classes Mind Destroy Creativity
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Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Truth Complicated Allow Approximations
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Stable Processes Predict Control
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Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

Life Process Abstracted Media
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Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.

Problems Vague terms Problems
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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

People Believe Mathematics Life
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

Sense Pricise Know Talking about
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Computers are like humans - they do everything except think
Computers Human Everything Think
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Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

Technological Possibilities Man Control
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Young Mathematics Understand
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It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

Foolish People Selfish Nature
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If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Penetrated Subject Contrast Mathematical
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Mathematics Language Primary Secondary
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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't

God Things Easier Explain
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The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

Belief Truth Evil World
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We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

World Children Born Care
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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Intellect Possible Reason Sensible
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Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people

Study Science Athiest People
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Science is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Science History Tradition Civilization
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Nature loves simplicity and unity.
Nature Loves Simplicity Unity
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