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Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
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Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and…
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
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Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
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Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
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One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of…
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Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the…
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We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal…
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Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
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It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in…
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A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are…
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... 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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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
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Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
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Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin…
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The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it…
— Hermann Weyl
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Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease…
— Lewis Mumford
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Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
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Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are…
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I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling…
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Power floats like money, like language, like theory.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in…
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