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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826)

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Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
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Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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