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Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Mysticism and Logic
Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.
LISA RANDALL, Warped Passages
All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Cyrus' Garden
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