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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. — Roger Bacon

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling {or even calligraphy} is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words. — V.I. Arnold

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy {anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy}... — Doug Pierce

Mathematics is the art of explanation. — Paul Lockhart A...

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have its members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them. — Paul Lockhart A...

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive. — Abby Morel

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. — Henri Poincaré Science and...

Is Euclidian geometry true or is Riemann geometry true? He answered, The question has no meaning. As well ask whether the metric system is true and the avoirdupois system is false; whether Cartesian coordinates are true and polar coordinates are false. One geometry can not be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art...

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes...

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a...

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

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