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Mathematician

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Thought and Reason
A thought is an idea in transit.
Pythagoras
MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC
3.0 · 59 votes · 180 reads
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Government and Politics
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
René Descartes
MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century
3.7 · 43 votes · 131 reads
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Science and Technology
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
Henri Poincaré
MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century
4.1 · 10 votes · 190 reads
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Virtues
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century
4.7 · 22 votes · 160 reads
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Science and Technology
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century
4.0 · 63 votes · 9 reads
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Thought and Reason
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton
MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century
3.1 · 34 votes · 33 reads
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Science and Technology
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Alan Turing
MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century
3.5 · 60 votes · 143 reads
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Society
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
Leonhard Euler
MathematicianSwiss1707 · 18th century
3.3 · 64 votes · 189 reads
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Science and Technology
Eureka! - I have found it!
Archimedes
MathematicianGreek-287 · 3rd century BC
3.3 · 20 votes · 193 reads
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Science and Technology
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Daniel Bernoulli
MathematicianDutch1700 · 17th century
4.1 · 13 votes · 110 reads
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