Quote by Bertrand Russell
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the phys

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. – Bertrand Russell

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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell

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The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra. – Author Unknown

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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky – or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. – Carl Sandburg

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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede. – Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. – Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"

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