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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.”
Source: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
“There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.”
Source: The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition
“Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens.”
Source: A Primer of Mathematical Writing: Being a Disquisition on Having Your Ideas Recorded, Typeset, Published, Read, and Appreciated, Second Edition
“The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.”
Source: The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3
Source: Selected essays
“No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”
Source: What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...
“I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.”
“He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.”
“In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.”
Source: Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
Source: Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind
“Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.”
“The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology