Mathematical Objects Exist

Famous quotes containing the words mathematical, objects and/or exist:

    All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.... This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon (c. 1214–c. 1294)

    I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
    Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)

    Better not to exist than live basely.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)