Mathematics is the poetry of logic and the music of reason.
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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?
From Pythagoras (whether by way of Socrates or not) Plato derived the Orphic elements in his philosophy: the religious trend, the belief in immortality, the other-worldliness, the priestly tone, and all that is involved in the simile of the cave; also his respect for mathematics, and his intimate intermingling of intellect and mysticism.
mathematics / mysticism / philosophy / plato / Pythagoras
Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency.
books / mathematics / nature
Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.
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When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.
hegel / mathematics / philosophy / system / truth
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
With me, everything turns into mathematics.