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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

— William Blake

It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to…

— David Hume

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

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart…

— Blaise Pascal

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

— William Godwin

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most…

— Charles Babbage

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it…

— Ernst Mach

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

— George Washington

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on…

— Jean-Victor Poncelet

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

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge…

— Roger Bacon