Sir Arthur Eddington on Mathematics

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

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Sir Arthur Eddington on Mathematics

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

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Sir Arthur Eddington on Mathematics

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

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