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 How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of 
human thought independent of experience, is so read more 
 How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of 
human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted 
to the objects of reality? 
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
 It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated 
observation, that mathematics is a human invention.  
 It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated 
observation, that mathematics is a human invention. 
 It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which 
marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other read more 
 It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which 
marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other 
sciences. 
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.