Bertrand Russell Quote

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.


Principles of Mathematics (1903), p. 451


Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the...

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the...

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the...

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the...