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Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness o

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. – Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"

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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? – Pliny the Elder, Natural History

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