The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.
Proofs and refutations (Cambridge, 1976).
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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