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Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.
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Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?
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Poincaré was an artist par excellence. Estheticism with him was not a mere creed: it was a way of life.
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To describe means to classify, and the man Poincaré defies classification, as does indeed his philosophy.
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In the history of mathematics, the "how" always preceded the "why," the technique of the subject preceded its philosophy.
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Thales the teacher produced the first geometers, even as Thales the thinker founded the first geometry worthy of the name.
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Banish the infinite process, and mathematics pure and applied is reduced to the state in which it was known to the pre-Pythagoreans.
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The evolution of scientific thought is inseparable from the history of man's efforts to resolve the perplexities of his own existence.
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Mathematics fluourished as long as freedom of thought prevailed; it decayed when creative joy gave way to blind faith and fanatical frenzy.
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Mathematics is not only the model along the lines of which the exact sciences are striving to design their structure; mathematics is the cement which holds the structure together.
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D'Alembert, who wrote the introduction to the Encyclopédie, resigned his editorship with the scathing remark that the work was like a harlequin's coat: some good stuff, but mostly rags.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Tobias Dantzig
Born:
February 19, 1884
Died:
August 9, 1956
(aged 72)
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