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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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“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

“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