Mathematics is no more the art of reckoning and computation than architecture is the art of making bricks or hewing wood, no more than painting is the art of mixing colors on a palette, no more than the science of geology is the art of breaking rocks, or the science of anatomy the art of butchering.


Lectures on Science, Philosophy and Art, 1907-1908, Mathematics (p. 29), The Columbia University Press. 1908


Mathematics is no more the art of reckoning and computation than architecture is the art of making bricks or hewing wood, no more than painting is...

Mathematics is no more the art of reckoning and computation than architecture is the art of making bricks or hewing wood, no more than painting is...

Mathematics is no more the art of reckoning and computation than architecture is the art of making bricks or hewing wood, no more than painting is...

Mathematics is no more the art of reckoning and computation than architecture is the art of making bricks or hewing wood, no more than painting is...