Quotes
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Life without Zero
‘The point about zero is that we don’t need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.’― Alfred North…
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Einstein’s Razor
‘Nature is the realisation of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas.’― Albert Einstein
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The Grand Aim of Science
‘The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.’― Albert Einstein
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The Nature of Science
‘Science is not about finding any kind of ultimate truth, it is about building hypotheses or models that we use to make useful predictions.’― JohnJoe McFadden
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The Power of Belief
‘The power of belief resides in its ability to do four things: belief creates vision; belief creates strength of will; belief creates resilience; belief ignites and activates.’― Eva de Goede
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The Discovery of Pure Mathematics
‘Pure Mathematics was discovered by Boole in a work which he called The Laws of Thought.’― Bertrand Russell
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The Poet Mathematician
‘It is true that a mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician.’― Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass
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