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Science Quotes by James Roy Newman (1)
It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.
— James Roy Newman
'The Mysteries of Arithmetic: Commentary', The World of Mathematics (2000), Vol. 1, 497.
