Charles Darwin
1809–1882
English biologist
Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.
TOPICS: discovery, philosophy
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
TOPICS: none
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
TOPICS: humor
I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you, for so am I, only with this difference, I stick fast in the mud at the bottom and there I shall remain.