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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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I am ill at these numbers.

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"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

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Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

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I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

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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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I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

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Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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God forever geometrizes.

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Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

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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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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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