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1 Cogito Ergo Sum. "I think, René Descartes 1596 to 1650 therefore I am." Born La Haye (now Descartes),Touraine, France

2 Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-biruni Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. "The scholars" he answered, "are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science" Born in Kara-Kalpakskaya, Uzbekistan

3 Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. On the lever Archimedes of Syracuse 287 BC BC Born in Syracuse, Sciliy, Italy

4 Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. Charles Babbage Born in London, England

5 An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which Niels Henrik David Bohr can be made, in a very narrow Born in Copenhagen, Denmark field

6 Quinquies exscriptus, maneat tot millibus annis. Girolamo Cardano I wrote it out five times, may it last the same number of millennia. Born in Pavia, Italy

7 Lewis Carroll The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Alice in Wonderland Born in Daresbury, England

8 Numbers are the free creation of the human mind Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind Born in Braunschweig, Germany

9 Albert Einstein If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew Born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany

10 Euclid of Alexandria about 325 BC - about 265 BC Born in Greece? A youth who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learnt the first proposition, inquired, "What do I get by learning these things?" So Euclid called a slave and said "Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns."

11 Galileo Galilei In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual Born in Pisa, Italy

12 Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss Born in Brunswick, Germany the queen of mathematics.

13 Omar Khayyam Born in Nishapur, Persia (now Iran) The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

14 It is impossible to be a mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya Born in Moscow without being a poet in soul.

15 There are three Leonardo da Vinci classes of people. Those who see; those who see when they are shown; those who do not see Born in Vinci (near Empolia), Italy

16 What we know is not much. What we do not know is Pierre-Simon Laplace immense. (Allegedly his last words.) Born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France

17 Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce Born in Warsaw, Poland

18 If I have been able to see further, it was only because I Sir Isaac Newton Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England stood on the shoulders of giants.

19 Every man has been made by God in order to acquire Pythagoras of Samos about 569 BC - about 475 BC Born in Samos, Ionia knowledge and contemplate.

20 We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others Blaise Pascal Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France

21 Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here. Plato 427 BC BC Born in Athens, Greece

22 If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I Alfréd Rényi Born in Budapest, Hungary do mathematics to keep happy

23 I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger Born in Erdberg, Vienna, Austria with it. [On quantum mechanics ]

24 We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Alan Mathison Turing Born in London, England

25 It is the duty of every true Muslim, man and woman, to Ulugh Beg Born in Soltaniyeh, Timurid, Iran strive after knowledge.

26 Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of Erik Christopher Zeeman simplicity 1925 Born in Japan

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