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“How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”

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Author:Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

“Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.”

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Book:Architecture and Democracy

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“Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.”

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Author:Martin Gardner

“Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."”

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Author:David Malet Armstrong

“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.”

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Author:Gerolamo Cardano

“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”

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Author:Paul Halmos

“It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.”

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Author:Samuil Shatunovsky

“Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.”

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Author:Hermann Weyl

“It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.”

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Book:The queen of the sciences

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“If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.”

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Author:Richard Askey

“[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.”

“The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.”

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Author:Gosta Mittag-Leffler

“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”

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Author:Paul Dirac

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”

“What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“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.”

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Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb down a tree. In fact neither the up monkey nor the down monkey is a viable creature. A real monkey must find food and escape his enemies and so must be able to incessantly climb up and down. A real mathematician must be able to generalise and specialise.”

“Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.”