Quotations in Context (II)

Further quotable-quotes;  click for the context:

Sober orthodoxy of each camp would doubtless concede that the others “believe in” the “same” God …  adding simply, that they worship Him amiss.

There are two poles of the range of approaches to the problem of infinities. One is that of the badger-like Brouwer, who simply sweeps the chessmen to the floor, folds up the board and goes home. 

‘Tis of great use to the sailor  to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

We know, on scientific grounds, that penguins cannot exist.  How, then, to explain the persistence, among the unlettered, of a belief in these fanciful creatures?

A certain reserve towards Category Theory was then widespread among working mathematicians.  They referred to it as "diagram-chasing"

The species is not discernable, nor the genus, nor the phylum even; we do not know if we are dealing with humans or with the jinn.