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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

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A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.

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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

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I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

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