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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Quote from Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn’t really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

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Quote from Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow.

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Francis Bacon The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

Quote from Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Quote from John von Neumann

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

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Jack Kerouac The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Quote from Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

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Quote from George Pólya

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn’t stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.

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