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- All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?
- Russ Zandbergen
- Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
- G.H. Hardy, in _A Mathematician's Apology_
- Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...
- Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
- I don't like it and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
- Erwin Schrodinger commenting on Schrodinger's equations
- When you're not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, from Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
- Rita Mae Brown
- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
- Douglas R. Hofstadter, from Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- There is no "royal road" to geometry.
- Euclid, to king Ptolemy I
- ...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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