Of Science And Philosophy

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

G.H. Hardy

I have had my results for a long time; I do not know yet how to arrive at them.

Carl Gauss

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.

G.H. Hardy

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love.

Archimedes

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Arthur Cayley (1821-1895)

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin 

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Dan Brown (Angels and Demons)

Yesterday was my 21st birthday. By that age, Newton and Pascal were already immortal.

Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)

If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders on giants.

Isaac Newton (The Correspondence of Isaac Newton)

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is because they do not realise how complicated life is.

John von Neumann