SOME QUOTATIONS ON MATHS(COLLECTIONS)

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since

we cannot prove it.    -- Andre Weil

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"God made the whole (natural) numbers. The others, were man-made" -Leopold Kronecker [German mathematician, 1823-1891]:
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If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

P. Turan, "The Work of Alfred Renyi", Matematikai Lapok 21, 1970, pp 199-210

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Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching 

mathematics.

        --Siméon Poisson

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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to

them.

 -- John von Neumann (1903-1957) [Hungarian/US mathematician and

scientist]

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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he

is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not

make messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert

A. Heinlein (1907-19??) [US science-fiction writer] )

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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least

principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also

grant him, and from this consequence another.

-- Bernard Le Bovier Fontelle

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Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

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"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat

which isn't there" - Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882) [English biologist]

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Copernicus, Nicholaus  (1473-1543)

Mathematics is written for mathematicians
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"A person who can, within a year, solve x^2 - 92y^2 = 1 is a mathematician."

   -- Brahmagupta

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Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960)

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

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The traditional mathematics professor of the popular legend is

absentminded. He usually appears in public with a lost umbrella in each

hand. He prefers to face the blackboard and to turn his back to the

class. He writes a, he says b, he means c; but it should be d. Some of his

sayings are handed down from generation to generation.

"In order to solve this differential equation you look at it till a

solution occurs to you."

"This principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of

it is possible."

"Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures."

"My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it."

"What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device

which you used twice."

How to Solve It. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1945.

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"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically." Leonardo da Vinci
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I was x years old in the year x^2. (when asked his age.)
More funny Augustus de Morgan quotes
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Infinity

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. –- Albert Einstein

"The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind." -- James Pierpont

"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man." -- David Hilbert

"[Paradoxes of the infinite arise] only when we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited;" -- Galileo Galilei

"The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated." -- Edward Kasner and James Newman

"God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets." -- Gian Carlo Rota

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Life is …

‘Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary components.”

"Life is too short for long division."

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction." – Tolstoy

"The arithmetic of life does not always have a logical answer."-- Inshirah Abdur-Rauf

"A few honest men are better than numbers." -- Oliver Cromwell

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." -- John Adams

"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio."-- Thomas Robert Malthus

"Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics." -- Simeon Poisson

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