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'; quotes[1]='The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle'; quotes[2]='The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
Aristotle'; quotes[3]='Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Honore de Balzac'; quotes[4]='The longer mathematics lives the more abstract -- and therefore, possibly also the more practical -- it becomes.
Eric Temple Bell'; quotes[5]=' \" Can you do addition? \" the White Queen asked. \" What \' s one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one? \" \" I don \' t know, \" said Alice. \" I lost count. \"
Lewis Carroll'; quotes[6]='There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Anton Chekov'; quotes[7]='Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicholaus Kopernikus'; quotes[8]='Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Charles Darwin'; quotes[9]='Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
Max Dehn'; quotes[10]='Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.
Rene Descartes'; quotes[11]='I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes'; quotes[12]='When you have eliminated the impossible, what ever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'; quotes[13]='Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein'; quotes[14]='The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein'; quotes[15]='Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
Albert Einstein'; quotes[16]='The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Albert Einstein'; quotes[17]='To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
Pierre de Fermat'; quotes[18]='Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?
Gustave Flaubert'; quotes[19]='You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
Karl Friedrich Gauss'; quotes[20]='I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
Karl Friedrich Gauss'; quotes[21]='Mathematics is not a deductive science -- that \'s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don \'t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
Paul Halmos'; quotes[22]='Don \'t just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?
Paul Halmos'; quotes[23]='Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
Godfrey H. Hardy'; quotes[24]='Mathematics is the science of what is clear by itself.
Carl Jacobi'; quotes[25]='Where there is matter, there is geometry.
Johannes Kepler'; quotes[26]='Mathematics is indeed dangerous in that it absorbs students to such a degree that it dulls their senses to everything else.
Prinz zu Hohlenlohe-Ingelfingen'; quotes[27]='God made the integers, all else is the work of man.
Leopold Kronecker'; quotes[28]='A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth.
Thomas Mann'; quotes[29]='If you see a formula in the Physical Review that extends over a quarter of a page, forget it. It \'s wrong. Nature isn \'t that complicated.
Bernd T. Matthias'; quotes[30]='A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.
Napoleon Bonaparte'; quotes[31]='In mathematics you don \'t understand things. You just get used to them.
John von Neumann'; quotes[32]='We all believe that mathematics is an art. The author of a book, the lecturer in a classroom tries to convey the structural beauty of mathematics to his readers, to his listeners. In this attempt, he must always fail. Mathematics is logical to be sure, each conclusion is drawn from previously derived statements. Yet the whole of it, the real piece of art, is not linear; worse than that, its perception should be instantaneous.
Emil Artin'; quotes[33]='Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician \' finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
Godfrey H. Hardy'; quotes[34]='Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert'; quotes[35]='...
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