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It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), The Philosophy of Physical Science
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
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M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972), Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855), from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
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John D. Barrow (1952 - ), (1735-1811)
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Church's Undecidability Theorem, Turing's Halting Problem, Turski's Truth Theorem-- all have the flavour of some ancient fairy tale which warns you that "To seek self- knowledge is to embark on a journey which . . . will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described."
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
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Eric Temple Bell
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