My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

Georg Cantor

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Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

Louis Zukofsky

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All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes. Mathematicians go backward and forward from one world to another. They’re adults in the crystalline world, infants in the real one.

Sylvain Cappell

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I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Michael Grant

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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

Bill Gaede

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A mathematician is an individual who constructs space with 0D particles and then places a bowling ball on this invisible canvas to explain how gravity works.

Bill Gaede

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A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

Bill Gaede

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A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...

Bill Gaede

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Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

Michael Crichton

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Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Michael Crichton

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