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Quote by Gregory Bateson
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call m

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous. – Henri Poincaré

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The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. – Eric Bell, The Search for Truth

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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

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The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. – John Kemeny

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