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.


Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, March, 1912, The above proposition is occasionally useful. as quoted in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2012), p. 1318

Bertrand Russell Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...