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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

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Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

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I am ill at these numbers.

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Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

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I think I think, therefore I think I am.

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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I have no faith in political arithmetic.

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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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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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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

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