Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. – William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs
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I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness…. – Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. – W.S. Anglin
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. – Fran Lebowitz
[T]he flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar… – Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, 1999
