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Textbooks […] begin by truncating the scientist's sense of his discipline's history and then proceed to supply a substitute for what they have eliminated.

Mac Lane was strongly marked by Weyl's […] certainty that the best philosophic insights on science would depend on detailed mastery of the best science.

— Colin McLarty, The Last Mathematician from Hilbert’s Göttingen: Saunders Mac Lane as Philosopher of Mathematics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (2007), 77–112

I can assure you, at any rate, that my intentions are honourable and my results invariant, probably canonical, perhaps even functorial. But please allow me to assume that the characteristic is not 2.

— Someone writing in the name of the deceased Rudolf Lipschitz, Correspondence, Annals of Mathematics, Vol 69 (1959), 247–251.