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: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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Gilbert K Chesterton:
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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
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E S Fields:
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The man or woman who concentrated on Things can hardly be trusted to use those things for the essential good of mankind. Only those who have guided the development of their spirit as well as their mind are really; qualified to use wisely the things that man's reason has enabled him to fashion out of nature's raw materials.
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Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
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Charles R Darwin:
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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Sir Arthur Eddington:
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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