Quotes by Mathematicians - Page 2

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
Blaise Pascal
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Alfred North Whitehead
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
Henri Poincaré
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
Norbert Wiener
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
Alfred North Whitehead
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Pythagoras
The horror of that moment the King went on "I shall never forget." "You will though " the Queen said "if you don't make a memorandum of it."
Lewis Carroll
You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyám
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Blaise Pascal
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand Russell
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Tom Lehrer
The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.
Thomas Chalmers
What men want is not knowledge but certainty.
Bertrand Russell
The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
Alfred North Whitehead
The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Norbert Wiener
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.
Bertrand Russell
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
Bertrand Russell
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
Charles Sanders Peirce
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
Alfred North Whitehead
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.
Archimedes
All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then Who is the Potter pray and who the Pot?
Omar Khayyám
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
René Descartes
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
To teach how to live with uncertainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell
If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.
Lord Russell
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.
Comte de Buffon
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
A book of Verses underneath the Bough A Jug of Wine a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Omar Khayyám
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand A. Russell
Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Bertrand Russell
Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
Blaise Pascal
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.
Pascal
One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Pascal
There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see.
Omar Khayyám
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
Sir James Jeans
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
Pythagoras
The horror of that moment the King went on "I shall never forget." "You will though " the Queen said "if you don't make a memorandum of it."
Lewis Carroll
You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyám
The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Blaise Pascal
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand Russell
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Tom Lehrer
The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.
Thomas Chalmers