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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

Eric Temple Bell
Games, Paper, Mathematics
Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.