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Martin Gardner
(American Mathematician)

Date of Birth:: October 21, 1914
Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 6
Times favorited:: 2

Martin Gardner is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic , pseudoscience, literature , philosophy, and religion. He wrote the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981 and has published over 70 books.

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All quotes by Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner

“If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?”

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Martin Gardner

“A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship”

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Martin Gardner

“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.”

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Martin Gardner

“There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.”

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Martin Gardner

“Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?”

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Martin Gardner

“[The high number from the Middle East is only coincidence, he said.] It is no particular choice on our part, ... We accept visa trainees from those countries. We'd accept them from other countries, too, but we don't get their applications.”

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