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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein",

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein",

"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.
Bertrand Russell",


"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France",


"I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
Frank Wilczek",

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann ",

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato",

"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",


"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",

"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato",

"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Henri Poincare",

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant",

"Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Descartes",

"Old math teachers never die, they just tend to infinity.
Unknown",


"The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.
Ben Franklin.",

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Unknown",



"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
S. Gudder"