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Mathematics is an instrument of thought. It is a sort of machine by which the crude and imperfect results of thought are taken and disentangled, and arranged in such a way that the thought can act upon them most readily.

Charles Carroll Everett
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There is as great a distinction between mathematics and the mathematical sciences as there is between induction and the inductive sciences. Practically, few cases of induction do not involve, to a greater or less extent, deductions; so few mathematical processes do not involve some strictly logical procedure.

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The technical name of the science of thought is logic.

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[Science] must have a name for everything - some fixed, hard word, that shall stand for this one thing, and for nothing else. Thus, at first sight, any science is a mass of terms.

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The mathematician is like a man travelling through a strange country. Roads branch out in all directions. He knows the point of the compass towards which he is aiming, and selects road after road as it promises to lead him thither.

Charles Carroll Everett

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Charles Carroll Everett

Charles Carroll Everett

Born: June 19, 1829
Died: October 16, 1900 (aged 71)
Bio: Charles Carroll Everett was an American divine and philosopher.
Known for:
  1. Ethics for Young People (1891)
  2. The Gospel of Paul (1893)
  3. The Science of Thought: A System of Logic (1869)

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