We do not listen with best regard to the verses of a man who is only a
poet, nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist; but if a man is at
once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their
festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Fortune Quote #1134
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make
empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have
made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in
the bonds of Hell. -- St. Augustine
empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have
made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in
the bonds of Hell. -- St. Augustine
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Fortune Quote #1133
No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to
make fiction first. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
make fiction first. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Monday, September 7, 2015
Fortune Quote #1132
We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say,
magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes
infinitely greater, the one than other. This astonishes our dimension of
brains, which is only about 6 inches long, 5 broad and 6 inches in depth in
the largest heads. -- Voltaire
magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes
infinitely greater, the one than other. This astonishes our dimension of
brains, which is only about 6 inches long, 5 broad and 6 inches in depth in
the largest heads. -- Voltaire
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Fortune Quote #1131
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large; but
always something still smaller and something still larger. --
Anaxagoras
always something still smaller and something still larger. --
Anaxagoras
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Fortune Quote #1130
The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected
with the prosperity of the State. -- Napoleon
with the prosperity of the State. -- Napoleon
Friday, September 4, 2015
Fortune Quote #1129
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an
independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser
than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of
them than was originally put into them. -- Heinrich Hertz
independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser
than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of
them than was originally put into them. -- Heinrich Hertz
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Fortune Quote #1128
It is the embarrassment of metaphysics that it is able to accomplish so
little with the many things that mathematics offers her. --
Immanuel Kant
little with the many things that mathematics offers her. --
Immanuel Kant
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Fortune Quote #1127
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate
into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely
different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely
different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Fortune Quote #1126
...the Symboles serve only to make men go faster about, as greater Winde
to a Winde-mill. -- Thomas Hobbes
to a Winde-mill. -- Thomas Hobbes
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