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| Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos |
| Galileo Galilei |
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| Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics. |
| Leon Trotsky |
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| The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics. |
| Leon Trotsky |
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| The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics |
| Plato |
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| The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. |
| Aristotle |
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| 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 |
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| The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal |
| William James |
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| There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics. |
| Aristotle |
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| Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. |
| Albert Einstein |
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