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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

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A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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