“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.” -- Bertrand Russell
“Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.”
“Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.” -- J. H. Poincare
“Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.”
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper." -- David Hilbert
"Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way." -- George Polya
"In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -- Johann von Neumann
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