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

— Roger Bacon

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Peter Nicholls (1979)

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Opus majus: A translation by Robert Belle Burke. Vol 1 (1962)

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

The strongest argument proves nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences, and the goal of all speculation.

But I did not work all that much, since in the pursuit of Wisdom this was not required.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing.

Bertrand Russell

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

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