Independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality? How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. Bell Mathematics, Queen and Servant of the Sciences.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within,Ĭommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscellany, MethuenĮverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. This has been done elegantly by Minkowski but chalk is cheaper than grey Jagdish Mehra (ed.) The Physicist's Conception of Nature, 1973. A model hasĪ third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. 5, December 1992.Ī theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. Not think about ordinary problems: they just write down the answers. They think about difficult and unusual problems. If you ask mathematicians what they do, yo always get the same answer. When I am violently beset with temptations, or cannot rid myself of evil thoughts, to do some Arithmetic, or Geometry, or some other study, which necessarily engages all my thoughts, and unavoidably keeps them from wandering. The solvency of a life-insurance company. Human life is proverbially uncertain few things are more certain than Without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as Such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness The cat is merely incidental to the grin. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist
To the physicist it is an indispensableĬharacteristic. To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with We haveĭevised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins.Īt last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about `and'. We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and oneĪre two. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC: Rome Press Inc., 1988. Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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