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Bertrand Russell1872–1970

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

Bertrand Russell on science

Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, March, 1912, as quoted in Gaither’s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2012), p. 1318

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