The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

- Mary Everest Boole

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

- Mary Everest Boole

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines…

- Mary Everest Boole