In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
– Anonymous
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- In mathematics, you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. – Johann Neumann
- Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. – J. H. Poincare
- Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes. – Eric T. Bell
- The mathematics is not there till we put it there. – Anonymous
- “Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics. – Anonymous
- Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. – Anonymous
- Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself. – Anonymous
- We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. – Anonymous
- The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. – S. Gudder
- It is not necesssary to understand things in order to argue about them. – Caron