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Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they t

Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. – Johann von Goethe

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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesnt marry a girl of twenty. – Maxim Gorky

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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didnt even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? – Lewis Carroll

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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers. – Sir Thomas Browne

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