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— James Clerk Maxwell"All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers."
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.
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