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“I am quite convinced; and, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics, a science which proceeds very cautiously and admits nothing as established until it has been rigidly...” Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
“The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty” Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. That which can be imagined is as much an approximation to truth as that which can be proved by mathematics.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
“Too large a proportion of recent 'mathematical' economics are merely concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of...” John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who could reason.” Plato, The Republic
“dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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