Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so.
In G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Descartes commanded the future from his study more than Napoleon from the throne.
In G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.
Hobbes, Thomas
The errors of
definitions multiply
themselves according
as the reckoning
proceeds; and lead
men into
absurdities, which
at last they see but
cannot avoid,
without reckoning
anew from the
beginning.
In J. R. Newman
(ed.), The World of
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Hobbes, Thomas
Geometry, which is
the only science
that it hath pleased
God hitherto to
bestow on mankind
...
In J. R. Newman
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Hobbes, Thomas
To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
["This" is that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume.]
In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC: Rome Press Inc., 1988.
Hobbes, Thomas
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
In G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.
Hirst, Thomas Archer
10th August 1851: On Tuesday evening at Museum, at a ball in the gardens. The night was chill, I dropped too suddenly from Differential Calculus into ladies' society, and could not give myself freely to the change. After an hour's attempt so to do, I returned, cursing the mode of life I was pursuing; next morning I had already shaken hands, however, with Diff. Calculus, and forgot the ladies....
J. Helen Gardner and Robin J. Wilson, "Thomas Archer Hirst - Mathematician Xtravagant II - Student Days in Germany", The American Mathematical Monthly , v. 6, no. 100.
Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.
Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
Mathematics knows no
races or geographic
boundaries; for
mathematics, the
cultural world is
one country.
In H. Eves,
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Hilbert, David (1862-1943)
One can measure the
importance of a
scientific work by
the number of
earlier publications
rendered superfluous
by it.
In H. Eves,
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