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Quote by Bertrand Russell
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic. – Bertrand Russell

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives mouths. – Bertrand Russell

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With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

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In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. – Hermann Hankel

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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. – Philip J. Davis

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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius. – Harold Marston Morse

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