Tobias Dantzig Quote

The progress of mathematics has been most erratic, and... intuition has played a predominant rôle in it.... It was the function of intuition to create new forms; it was the acknowledged right of logic to accept or reject these new forms, in whose birth in had no part.... the children had to live, so while waiting for logic to sanctify their existence, they throve and multiplied.

Number: The Language of Science (1930)