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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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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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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. – Bertrand Russell

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

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