And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed. Bacon, Roger For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. A Reader , Sheridan House, 1987. Bagehot, Walter Life is a school of probability.
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
I11 Seen I11 Said, Worstward Ho , in The New York Review of Books , August 13, 1992. Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles. Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.