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Albert Einstein 1879-1955
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Izaak Walton 1593-1683
Angling may be said to be so like mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt.
[The Compleat Angler]

Bertrand Russell 1872-1970
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.

Leopold Kronecker 1823-1891
Die ganze Zahl shuf der liebe Gott, alles übrige ist Menschenwerk.
(God made the integers, man made the rest.)

Roger Bacon (c. 1214-c.1294)
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge in mathematics.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 
Philosophy is written in this grand book -- I mean the universe -- which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.

Alastair Reid 1926-
'Counting': Ounce, dice, trice, quartz, sago, serpent, oxygen, nitrogen, denim.
 
 

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