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“Mathematics is written for mathematicians.”
Source: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres ...
“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
“Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.”
“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.”
“Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”
“Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.”
“Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.”
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
“Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.”
“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”
“Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.”
“Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.”
“Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.”
“Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.”
“Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.”
“Mathematics needs to be taught using nature!”
“Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.”
Source: His Master's Voice
“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”
Source: A History of Western Philosophy
“Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.”
“Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.”
“Mathematics should be fun.”
“Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!”
“Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.”
“Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.”
“Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.”
“Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.”
“Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.”
“Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.”
“Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal metaphor imaginable, and must be judged, aesthetically as well as intellectually in terms of the success of this metaphor.”
“Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.”
Source: Games, sex and evolution
“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.”
“Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.”
“Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a fact is so is the cause upon which we base the proof.”
“Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.”
“Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the guid to this growth is not calculation and formulas, but an open ended search for pattern.”
“Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.”
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.”
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”
“Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.”
“Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.”
“Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.”
“Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen," he says in response.”
Source: Snow Like Ashes
“Matheson instituía assim uma espécie de distopia vampiresca — sua obra servindo, inclusive, como modelo para muitos cenários de “apocalipse zumbi” que surgiriam na segunda metade do século 20, como o clássico A Noite dos Mortos-vivos (1968) de George A. Romero —, fazendo uso desse modo narrativo que se apropria de tensões do presente para imaginar os mais variados cenários de desastre alternativos ou futuros, bem como da figura do vampiro como agente propagador de doenças, o veículo para o apocalipse.”
Source: À Noite não Restariam Rosas: A Ameaça Epidêmica em Narrativas Vampirescas
“Mathias shivered. The forest had pulled so close when they drew near to this hostel, branches twitching. And he couldn’t tell if the feel of branches against his legs had been coincidental or if a tree had reached out to brush against him, taking his measure. At least no one had been yanked from their saddle. But no one looked comfortable. Except Aunia. She merely raised her face to the canopy, eyes wide as if a chorus of faeries danced for only her.”
Source: Faeries Don't Hide
“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.”
Source: A High Wind in Jamaica
“Mathieu didn’t know at all what to do about May. He felt a kind of nausea, probably induced by the regular movement of the ball. She was having religious fits again. Jesus Christ, she thought, how many thousands of years will it take people to get over their folklore?”
Source: The Gasp
“Mathieu didn’t know at all what to do about May. He felt a kind of nausea, probably induced by the regular movement of the ball. She was having religious fits again. Jesus Christ, she thought, how many thousands of years will it take people to get over their folklore?
There was nothing he could do about that now. She wouldn’t listen to all the scientific explanations and would go on imagining things. People will always keep imagining things. It was impossible to convince them that there is nothing there. Nothing at all. Only matter. Particles. Energy.”
Source: The Gasp
“Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of the tone of affection, ceased, after a moment, to afford Julien any pleasure, he was astonished at the absence of happiness; finally, in order to feel it, he had recourse to his reason. He saw himself highly esteemed by this girl who was so proud, and never bestowed unrestricted praise; by this line of reasoning he arrived at a gratification of his self-esteem.”
Source: The Red and the Black