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The true spirit of delight, the exa…

24 Sep , 2019  

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertrand Russell , British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

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There is an astonishing imagination…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics… We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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Gregory Benford - Timescape

There was a blithe certainty that c…

17 Nov , 2014  

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing […]

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We do not learn by inference and de…

15 Feb , 2011  

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry David Thoreau , US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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Hermann Weyl

You can not apply mathematics as lo…

27 Apr , 2010  

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. Great short quote and quotation by: Hermann Weyl ,

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