1. This, therefore, is mathematics: she gives life to her own discoveries; she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; she brings light to our intrinsic ideas; she abolishes the oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.
    — Proclus (via mathstalio)
     
  2. Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
    — Charles Darwin (via encanaillement)

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  3. The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
    — Theo Jansen (via pianoblossoms)
     
  4. Bertrand Russell

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    Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

     
  5. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
    — Albert Einstein (via carbon-made)
     
  6. 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
     
  7. It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.
    — Pierre Simon LaPlace
     
  8. The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
    — Plato
     
  9. If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
    — John Louis von Neumann (via volonbolon)
     
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