top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
Standard
Customized
More
"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The flowering of geometry."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
Author Name
Personal Development
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The square root of I is I."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years."
Politics
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
Mathematics
"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
Art
"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase."
Literature
"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
People
"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society
"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
Road
"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
Happiness
"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."
Life
"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man."
Man
bottom of page