Source: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972), p. 495
“Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.”
"I and I," p. 30
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
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“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”
"I and I," p. 30
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”

“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949), p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=fsvXYpOSowkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA279#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 2 (p. 51)
Against Infinity (1983)

Kurt Gödel (1958, CW II, p. 241) as cited in: Feferman, Solomon. " Lieber Herr Bernays!, Lieber Herr Gödel! Gödel on finitism, constructivity and Hilbert's program* http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/bernays.pdf." dialectica 62.2 (2008): 179-203.

“It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.”
Source: 1850s, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), p. 12; Cited in: Alexander Bain (1870) Logic, p. 191

Source: Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, 1897, p. 3 ; Cited in: Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/198/mode/2up, (1914) p. 33: About the nature of mathematics