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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