Related quotes
- The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
- Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
- Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
- The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
- Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
- It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.