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11. Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
14. It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics
along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
15. We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own
world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from
it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ~Mark Twain,
16. Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a
tyranny of numbers. ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement
and Misrule.
17. Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ~Arthur
Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World.
18. Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the
price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
Marcel Achard
19. I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they
will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
Thomas Mann