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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

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I don't believe in mathematics.

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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

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Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

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Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

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But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

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I have no faith in political arithmetic.

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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

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To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

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The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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