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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Richard Courant
Mathematics
Construction
Mind
Will
Active
Analysis
Logic
Intuition
Generality
Perfection
Individuality
Contemplative
Aesthetic
Reflects
Human
Human Mind
Reason
Expression
Elements
Basic
Basic Elements
Desire
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
David Hilbert
Art
Mathematics
Consists
Finding
Case
Generality
Contains
Doing
Which
Special
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell
Fitness
Art
Mathematics
Creative
Simplicity
Feeling
Past
Sense
Guided
Indefinable
Rather
Only
Inspired
Generality
Prospect
Ultimate
Mathematicians
Than
Any
In The Past
Usefulness
Now
Things
Symmetry
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
George Ade
Life
Saver
Generality
Parlor
Use
Vague
When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.
Cory Booker
Work
Politics
Me
Party
Own
Tea
Congress
Meet
Say
Out
Find
About
My Own
Generality
Supporter
Supporters
Judging
Without
Go
Get
Common
Common Ground
Sentence
Tea Party
Gross
Ground
Who
So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
Malcolm Turnbull
Parents
Statement
Circumstances
Generality
Proposition
Ideal
Particular
Another
Does
Child
Any
Which
Reason
Many
Agree
Biological
Apply
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Wilfred Owen
Reading
Thinking
Only
Poetical
Generality
Scientific
Am
Off
Any
Satisfaction
Rounds
Conscious
Vagueness
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
Thomas Sydenham
Nature
Confused
Down
Vain
State
Herself
Considered
Proper
Generality
Thrown
Effort
Disease
Her
Defending
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
Will Self
Me
People
Gadgets
Sometimes
Job
Films
Books
Latest
Consists
Critic
Telling
Generality
Simply
Mostly
Opinions
Occurs
Cultural
Up
Scratch
Manner
Electronic
Even
Serious