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• I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

  Epicurus

  Mind, Has Beens

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• Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

  James Black

  School, Years, Two

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• Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens.

  Vi Hart

  Happens, Seeing, Making Up

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• Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Leisure, Problem, Certain

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• The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

  John Stuart Mill

  Feelings, Analysis, Habit

  Autobiography v (p. 116)

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• And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

  George Berkeley

  Departed, May, Velocity

  George Berkeley (1871). “The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3”, p.283

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• Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Negative, Invention, Minus

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Newton, Defying, Method

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”

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• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  Danica McKellar

  College, Class, Drug

  "Danica McKellar Promotes New Math Book By Posing in Lingerie for 'Maxim'" by JJ Duncan, www.zimbio.com. May 12, 2010.

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• The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game- the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods.

  Paul Lockhart

  Games, Feelings, Secret

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• Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

  William Standish Knowles

  Long, Study, Forgotten

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• The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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• I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

  Alonzo Church

  School, Goes On, Fellowship

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• I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence.

  Allie X

  Mean, Thinking, Psychology

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• Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Religion, Trouble, Obscure

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Art, Doubt, Pragmatists

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• O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

  Jeremy Bentham

  Destiny, Pedants, Temples

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.145

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• My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

  Charlie Sheen

  Rate, Percent

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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• On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Air, Venus

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

  Ken Robinson

  Philosophy, Engineering, Creative

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

  Thomas Browne

  Order, Cities, Heaven

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 5

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• Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

  Michelle Obama

  Art, Reading, Skills

  Michelle Obama's Remarks At The American Ballet Opening Spring Gala, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 18, 2009.

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• The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Humanity, Students

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.159, Penguin

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• All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Ideas, Logic

  Bertrand Russell (2001). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.45, Psychology Press

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• If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

  Paul Dirac

  If There Is A God, Ifs, Mathematics

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