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math

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"A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the blackboard."

— Prof. Steiner

86

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"If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?"

— Anonymous

529

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"I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios."

— Logan Pearsall Smith

US Writer

645

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"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales"

— Stephen Hawking

"A Brief History of Time"

496

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"There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't."

— Seen on a bumper sticker

296

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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

— Benjamin Disraeli

15

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"Statistics have shown that mortality increases in the military during wartime."

— Alphonse Allais

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"There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense."

— C. Truesdell

390

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"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."

— John Von Neuman

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"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

— Theodore Sturgeon
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