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Even The Most Scientific Investigator In Science, The Most Thoroughgoing Positivist, Cannot Dispense With Fiction; He Must At Least Make Use Of Categories, And They Are Already Fictions, Analogical Fictions, Or Labels, Which Give Us The Same Pleasure As Children Receive When They Are Told The "name" Of A Thing.

The World's Greatest Thinkers Have Often Been Amateurs; For High Thinking Is The Outcome Of Fine And Independent Living, And For That A Professional Chair Offers No Special Opportunities.

It Is Here [in Mathematics] That The Artist Has The Fullest Scope Of His Imagination.

Dancing And Building Are The Two Primary And Essential Arts. The Art Of Dancing Stands At The Source Of All The Arts That Expressthemselves First In The Human Person. The Art Of Building, Or Architecture, Is The Beginning Of All The Arts That Lie Outside The Person; And In The End They Unite. Music, Acting, Poetry Proceed In The One Mighty Stream; Sculpture, Painting, All The Arts Of Design, In The Other. There Is No Primary Art Outside These Two Arts, For Their Origin Is Far Earlier Than Man Himself; And Dancing Came First.

Here, Where We Reach The Sphere Of Mathematics, We Are Among Processes Which Seem To Some The Most Inhuman Of All Human Activities And The Most Remote From Poetry. Yet It Is Here That The Artist Has The Fullest Scope Of His Imagination.