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Mathematics

5 quotes in the Mathematics category.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Einstein on the poetry of logical ideas · Albert Einstein · c. 1935

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein on the illusion of time · Albert Einstein · c. 1955

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Poincaré on the art of the same name · Henri Poincaré · c. 1908

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

von Neumann on getting used to it · John von Neumann · c. 1950

A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

Rényi on coffee and theorems · Alfréd Rényi · c. 1959

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