Quotable Mathematics

"For many men that stumble at the threshold Are well foretold that danger lurks within." (William Shakespeare, "King Henry th...

"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom." (Benjamin N Cardozo, Pa...

"One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories." (Jean de La Bruyère, "Les Caractères" Aphorism 52, 168...

"In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have  chosen this lifetime."   (Richard Bach, "Illusion...

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western  spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow s...

"Insanity, gentlemen, is not a catchall for every human action that involves  motives we don’t understand. Insanity has its own structu...

"The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." (Thomas Carlyle, "Jean Paul Friedric...

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

"Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books." (Benjamin Disraeli, ...

"[Sherlock Holmes:] How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, mu...

"All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and ...

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

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with t...

"But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world...

"My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. T...

"It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from." (Douglas N Adams, ...

"Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future." (Clifton Fadiman, 1951) "[Science fiction is] that clas...

"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often ...

"He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as ...

"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...