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There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics. -- Robert Robinson
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. -- James Joseph Sylvester
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. -- John Pople
A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). -- Carl Sagan
Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants. -- Paul Halmos
Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit. -- Charles Williams
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. -- Edward Frenkel
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied. -- John Edensor Littlewood
I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics -- Hunter S. Thompson
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy
As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment. -- Richard Whately
Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not. -- Charlie Munger
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal". -- Bertrand Russell
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven. -- Edward Everett Hale
...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world. -- James Jeans
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics. -- William Stanley Jevons
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. -- Albert Einstein
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. -- Edsger Dijkstra
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. -- George Oppen
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it. -- Edmund Husserl
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. -- Jim Sanborn
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action. -- Weili Dai
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. -- Plato
[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. -- William Wordsworth
The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy. -- Hendrik Lenstra
Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone. -- Henry John Stephen Smith
Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. -- Robert Musil
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty. -- Archimedes
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics. -- Francis Bacon
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. -- C. V. Wedgwood
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience -- Immanuel Kant
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. -- Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature. -- Albert Einstein

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