Famous quotes by Mathematicians

"Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Without adventure, civilization is in full decay"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Philosophy is the product of wonder"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Common sense is genius in homespun"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

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