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“My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.”

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Author:David Papineau

“I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.”

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Author:Johannes Kepler

“While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.”

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Author:Hilary Putnam

“With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.”

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Book:The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

Source: The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works

“The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.”

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Book:God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion

Source: God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion

“The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg