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“Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.”
“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of po...”
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.”
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the divinity of arithmetic, through showing that even the methods, which we now...”
“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theoremsgeneral and specific statement...”
“It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that's all. Suppose you had something and add...”
“I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.”
