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 Edna St. Vincent Millay 
Profession: writer. Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
John Stuart Mill
Profession: philosopher. A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded that he cannot do, never does all he can.
Herman Minkowski
Profession: mathematician. From henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, have vanished into the merest shadows and only a kind of blend of the two exists in its own right.
Gosta Mittag-Leffler
Profession: mathematician. The mathematician’s best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
Augustus de Morgan
Profession: mathematician. It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
John Napier
Profession: scientist. There is nothing so troublesome to mathematical practice ... than multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers ... I began therefore to consider ... how I might remove those hindrances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Profession: dictator. The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State.
James Newman
Profession: mathematician. The theory of groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the results with the result of doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
Sir Isaac Newton
Profession: mathematician, scientist. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier sea shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
William F. Osgood
Profession: mathematician. The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the appreciation of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
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