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• Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
• Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and…
• You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
• Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
• Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
• One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of…
• Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the…
• We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal…
• Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in…
• A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are…
• ... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have…

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