By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we…

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and…

— Hermann Weyl

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose…

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

— Hermann Weyl

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

— Hermann Weyl

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose…

— Saddam Hussein

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my…

— Nelson Mandela

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so…

— Francis Bacon

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.

— Charles de Foucauld

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently.…

— Elizabeth Keckley

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

— Baruch Spinoza