Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be m…

Charles Sanders Peirce
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Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
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