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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
  — Sir Arthur Eddington
    [ mathematics ]
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
  — Sir Arthur Eddington
    [ mathematics ]
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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
  — Johann von Neumann
    [ mathematics ]
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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.
  — Vannevar Bush
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
  — Bertrand Russell
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