Quotable Mathematics

"Consequently, these laws of nature need only be discovered, and then man will no longer be answerable for his actions, and his life wi...

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will." ( William Shakespeare, " Hamlet", 1601) ...

"All evils are equal when they are extreme." ( Pierre Corneille, " Horace", 1639) "It is the talent of human nature...

"It was beyond him how someone could voluntarily let himself get involved in  this game of dimension-shifting and mutant-battling. But ...

"This is called the inductive method. Hypothesis, my dear young friend, establishes itself by a cumulative process: or, to use popular ...

"[Precision] is the very soul of science; and its attainment afford the only criterion, or at least the best, of the truth of theories,...

"Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth." (Jules Ver...

"Can you appreciate the crushing hopelessness it brought to me? I, who  love science, who see in it, or have seen in it, the salvation,...

  "I have often wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of ...

"Phenomena may well be suspected of anything, are capable of anything. Hypothesis proclaims the infinite; that is what gives hypothesis...