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“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the…

— ryan fitzpatrick

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is…

— Aristotle

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.…

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

— Paul Feyerabend

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

— Moses Aaron Richardson

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

— Carl Sagan

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

— Bertrand Russell

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

— Martin Gardner