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Quote by Gregory Bateson
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call m

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson

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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. – Harold Marston Morse

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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. – John Louis von Neumann

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I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness…. – Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard

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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. – S. Gudder

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