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• If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
• The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements...… — Blaise Pascal
• There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
• There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access… — Charles Hermite
• Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt
• I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate,… — Roger Penrose
• Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
• The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead
• The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational… — George Washington
• . . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It… — Edward Kasner
• The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side. — John Stuart Mill
• If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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