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• Quote #266 The summation symbol looks like a distorted pacman.
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• All mathematics are trivial. -- Mike Roddy
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  -- Maria Mitchell...
• In order to save whales could you please write on both sides of the paper.
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• Chemistry is physics without thought; mathematics is physics without purpose.
• The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)
• My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species.
  Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. -- Ralph Abraham...
• Quote #332 The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
  We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning....