Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Eureka! - I have found it!"

Archimedes, Mathematician

"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season, which no man can hasten or retard"

Janos Bolyai, Mathematician

"So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race"

Arthur Cayley, Mathematician

"Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience"

Arthur Cayley, Mathematician

"But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested"

Arthur Cayley, Mathematician

"And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings"

Arthur Cayley, Mathematician

"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In 1860, a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"I think Veblen had an interest in logic"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

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