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Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. in many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
-Robert M. Hutchins
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Mathematics ... Is Indispensable As An Intellectual

Robert M. Hutchins
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. in many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. for mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as bertrand russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world."
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