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“Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and…

— Johann Georg Hamann

“There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's…

— John Arbuthnot

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

— Alan Turing

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of…

— Brian L. Silver

“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a…

— Mary Everest Boole

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”

— H.L. Mencken

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

— George Polya

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have…

— George Bernard Shaw

“When God, the great mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.…

— Ruskin Bond

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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