"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." — John von Neumann
"Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty." — Bertrand Russell
"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful." — Jules Henri Poincaré
"Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics." — Dean Schlicter
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." — Albert Einstein
"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." — Albert Einstein
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale." — Benoit Mandelbrot
"Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." — Gottfried Whilhem Leibnitz
"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where ½ proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible." — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." — Amschel Mayer Rothschild
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