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Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 - 1947)

Through and through the world is infected with quantity: To talk sense is to talk in quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large .. How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce ... How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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In J. R. Newman (ed.), The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
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