Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? – Pliny the Elder, Natural History
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The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. – Eric Bell, The Search for Truth
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. – Hilda Phoebe Hudson
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
She went over to the mirror…glancing at herself sidelong, as women do who think they have lost their beauty; repudiating a complete reflection. – Rosamond Lehman
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it. – Zhang Ziyi
