"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."
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Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Lifeβ (2004) by Marcel Danesi, p. 71.
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