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quotes by topic Mathematics

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry , Mathematics

" Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. "

Religion , Nature , Art , Science , Ritual , Mathematics

" Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking. "

L. E. J. Brouwer

Thinking , Mathematics

" Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. "

L. E. J. Brouwer

Numbers , Mathematics , Natural

" This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking. "

G. Stanley Hall

Thinking , Mathematics , Queens

" My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. "

Stephenie Meyer

Despair , Mathematics

" In the Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead attempted to give a rigorous foundation to mathematics using formal logic as their basis. They began with what they considered to be axioms, and used those to derive theorems of increasing complexity. By page 362, they had established enough to prove "1 + 1 = 2. "

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics

" Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform. "

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics

" In his school, Bertrand Russell thought it was better if they had the sex, so they could give their undivided attention to mathematics, which was the main thing. "

Bertrand Russell

Sex , Mathematics