"Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same……" — Bertrand Russell
"Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
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Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
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