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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell

Logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

May 18th, 1872 - February 2nd, 1970

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