Raymond Louis Wilder quotes
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“Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.”
-- Raymond Louis Wilder#Appreciation Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Environment Quotes
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“There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.”
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“Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.”
-- Raymond Louis Wilder
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“An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.”
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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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