Topic: reason
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role.
TOPICS: imagination, learning, philosophy, science, reason
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
TOPICS: imagination, reason
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of an individual.
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.