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God Is A Mathematician and He Doesn't Play Dice.: Francis Collins

Mathematics is described as both a creative art and the most beautiful creation of the human spirit. It has beauty, romance, and allows for no hypocrisy or vagueness. Several quotes reference how studying mathematics could occupy one for millions of years, demonstrating both its depth and complexity. Overall, the document conveys mathematics as an extraordinary and rewarding field of study.

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God Is A Mathematician and He Doesn't Play Dice.: Francis Collins

Mathematics is described as both a creative art and the most beautiful creation of the human spirit. It has beauty, romance, and allows for no hypocrisy or vagueness. Several quotes reference how studying mathematics could occupy one for millions of years, demonstrating both its depth and complexity. Overall, the document conveys mathematics as an extraordinary and rewarding field of study.

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1. God is a mathematician and he doesn't play dice.

2. Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural


world is one country.
3. Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
4. In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving
it.
5. The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
6. The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather
than the problem itself.
7. If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with
mathematics.
8. Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical
world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
9. For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of
mathematics.
10. I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life
seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry
and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.

Francis Collins
11. Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

12. Mathematics is as old as Man.

13. Mathematics is a creative art.

14. It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics
along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

15. We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own
world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from
it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ~Mark Twain,

16. Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a
tyranny of numbers. ~Nicholas Eberstadt, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement
and Misrule.
17. Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ~Arthur
Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World.
18. Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the
price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Marcel Achard
19. I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they
will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

Thomas Mann

20. The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

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