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 |  |  | #10370 |  | Mathematicians often resort to something called Hilbert space, which is described as being n-dimensional.  Like modern sex, any number can play.
 -- Dr. Thor Wald, "Beep/The Quincunx of Time", by James Blish
 
 |  |  |  | #10371 |  | Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. -- Henry Adams
 
 |  |  |  | #10372 |  | Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
 -- Albert Einstein
 
 |  |  |  | #10373 |  | Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.
 -- Russell
 
 |  |  |  | #10374 |  | Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any
 part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music,
 yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the
 greatest art can show.  The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense
 of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is
 to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
 -- Bertrand Russell
 
 |  |  |  | #10375 |  | Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt. 
 |  |  |  | #10376 |  | Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value. 
 |  |  |  | #10377 |  | Measure twice, cut once. 
 |  |  |  | #10378 |  | Measure with a micrometer.  Mark with chalk.  Cut with an axe. 
 |  |  |  | #10379 |  | Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. -- Frederick Crane
 
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