Mathematics, even in its ...

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.
 Cassius Jackson Keyser

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
 Cassius Jackson Keyser
If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.
 Cassius Jackson Keyser