Brent has posted a couple of quotes
http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/1dadda0d2b84f605
“Mathematics is part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.”
— Vladimir Arnold.
“The duty of abstract mathematics, as I see it, is precisely to expand our capacity for hypothesizing possible ontologies.”
— Norm Levitt, Prof Mathematics Rutger University
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