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Loci: ConvergenceMathematical QuotationsOur library of quotations is organized alphabetically by surname of the author. W. Somerset MaughamIt is a great nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired through hard work. Maxwell, James Clerk (1813-1879)... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. Mayer, Maria Goeppert (1906 -1972)Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. McDuff, DusaGel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which he could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences! McShane, E. J.There are in this world optimists who feel that any symbol that starts off with an integral sign must necessarily denote something that will have every property that they should like an integral to possess. This of course is quite annoying to us rigorous mathematicians; what is even more annoying is that by doing so they often come up with the right answer. J. W. MellorThe experimental verification of a theory concerning any natural phenomenon generally rests on the result of an integration. Mencken, H. L. (1880 - 1956)Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. H.L. MenckenFor every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)Euclid alone has
looked on Beauty
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