Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.


As quoted in The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life (2004) by Marcel Danesi, p. 71 from Human All-Too-Human

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no...

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no...

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no...

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no...