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Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
                -- Henry Adams

Mathematicians take it to the limit.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts
to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
                -- Albert Einstein

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what
one is talking about nor whether what is said is true.
                -- Russell

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty --
a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any
part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music,
yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the
greatest art can show.  The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense
of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is
to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
                -- Bertrand Russell

Matrimony is the root of all evil.

Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence.

Matter cannot be created or destroyed,
nor can it be returned without a receipt.

Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.

[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment
where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand
more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.
                -- S. Kierkegaard