![[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-in-other-sciences-we-should-arrive-at-certainty-without-doubt-and-truth-with.jpg)
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