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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Mathematics

 2 is not equal to 3; not even for very large values of 2. 
Anonymous
 Alcohol and calculus don't mix: don't drink and derive. 
Anonymous
 Chemistry is physics without thought; mathematics is physics without purpose. 
Anonymous
 If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number. 
Anonymous
 It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. 
Agathon (448 BCE-400 BCE)
 It is rare that mathematicians are intuitive, and that men of intuition are mathematicians. 
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
 Mathematics has given economics rigour, but alas, also mortis. 
Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005)
 Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. 
Anonymous
 Some of it plus the rest of it is all of it. 
Anonymous
 The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. 
Robert R. Coveyou
 There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. 
Anonymous
 There are 1011 stars in the galaxy and that used to be a huge number, but it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers, now we should call them economical numbers. 
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
 There are two types of people in this world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete information. 
Anonymous
 To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. 
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
 Where are the calculations that go with the calculated risk? 
Anonymous
 Your probability of winning the lottery hardly increases by buying a ticket. 
Anonymous
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