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-> Y''ou know, I don't think math is a science. I think its a religion. All these equations are like miracles, you take two numbers and when you add them they magically become a ''new'' number! And no one can say how it happens. You either believe in it or you don't. \\

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-> Y''ou ''You know, I don't think math is a science. I think its a religion. All these equations are like miracles, you take two numbers and when you add them they magically become a ''new'' number! And no one can say how it happens. You either believe in it or you don't. \\



-->-- [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes another from Calvin and Hobbes]]

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-->-- [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes another from Calvin and Hobbes]]Hobbes]]

-> How big does the jackpot have to be before the expected value of the [lottery] ticket exceeds the value is costs? Now you can go back to your eighth grade math teacher and tell her you figured out what algebra is for.
-->-- '''Jordan Ellenberg''', ''How not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking''
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-> You know, I don't think math is a science. I think its a religion. All these equations are like miracles, you take two numbers and when you add them they magically become a ''new'' number! And no one can say how it happens. You either believe in it or you don't.
-> The whole book is full of things that have to be accepted on faith! It's a religion!
-->-- '''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]]'''

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-> You Y''ou know, I don't think math is a science. I think its a religion. All these equations are like miracles, you take two numbers and when you add them they magically become a ''new'' number! And no one can say how it happens. You either believe in it or you don't. \n-> \\
The whole book is full of things that have to be accepted on faith! It's a religion!
religion!''
-->-- '''[[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]]'''
'''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes ''
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->''If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.''
-->--'''Roger Bacon'''
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->''If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.''
-->--'''Roger Bacon'''

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-->-- '''[[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]]'''

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-->-- [[CalvinAndHobbes another from Calvin and Hobbes]]
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