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quotes[0] = "\"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.\" -- Bertrand Russell";
quotes[1] = "\"Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.\"";
quotes[2] = "\"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.\" -- J. H. Poincare";
quotes[3] = "\"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.\"";
quotes[4] = "\"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.\" -- David Hilbert";
quotes[5] = "\"Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.\" -- George Polya";
quotes[6] = "\"In mathematics, you don\'t understand things. You just get used to them.\" -- Johann von Neumann";
quotes[7] = "\"A tragedy of mathematics is a beautiful conjecture ruined by an ugly fact.\"";
quotes[8] = "\"Mathematics is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated.\"";
quotes[9] = "\"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.\"";
quotes[10] = "\"Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.\" -- Plato";
quotes[11] = "\"The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.\" -- S. Gudder";
quotes[12] = "\"There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.\" -- Raoul Bott";
quotes[13] = "\"Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.\" -- E.T. Bell";
quotes[14] = "\"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.\" -- Mickey Mouse";
quotes[15] = "\"The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.\" -- Adrian Mathesis";
quotes[16] = "\"The different branches of Arithmetic are Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.\" -- Lewis Caroll";
quotes[17] = "\"Mathematics is written for mathematicians.\" -- Copernicus";
quotes[18] = "\"Mathematics should be fun.\" -- Peter J. Hilton";
quotes[19] = "\"Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics.\"";
quotes[20] = "\"But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you\'re doing, rather than to get the right answer.\" -- Tom Lehrer";

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