To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.

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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We...

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We...

Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them...

Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them...

I was good at math before they decided to mix the alphabet in it.

I was good at math before they decided to mix the alphabet in it.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in...

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in...

Math teacher: I have 5 bottles in one hand, and 6 in the other. What...

Math teacher: I have 5 bottles in one hand, and 6 in the other. What...

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which...

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which...

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

I don't believe in mathematics.

I don't believe in mathematics.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and...

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and...

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting...

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting...

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that...

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that...

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics...

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics...

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our...

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our...

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms...

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms...