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Mathematics (n.) is the science of order and measure.
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Mathematics (n.) itself may be doubted: an all-powerful creator might have made us to be deceived even in what we think we know best.
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Mathematics (n.) feels less like learning than remembering — noticing what was already in the mind but unattended to.
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Mathematics (n.) is a foundation so strong and solid that it was astonishing nothing loftier had been built on it than the mechanical arts.
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Mathematics (n.) studies only relations and proportions, whatever its objects — so it can be done on straight lines and the briefest possible symbols.