It is easier to square the circle
than to get round a mathematician.
(Augustus de Morgan: A Budget of Paradoxes.)
Κατηγορία: Science
Einstein, «I am enough…»
I am enough of an artist
to draw freely
upon my imagination.
(Einstein: From interview.)
Newton, «If I have seen…»
If I have seen further
it is by standing
on the shoulders of Giants.
(Newton: Letter to R. Hooke.)
Newton, «Plato…»
Plato is my friend,
Aristotle is my friend,
but my greatest friend is truth.
(Newton: From notes.)
Laplace (?), «What we know…»
What we know is not much.
What we do not know is immense.
(Laplace (?).)
Laplace, «The last thing…»
The last thing we expect of you,
General, is a lesson in geometry!
(Laplace to Napoleon.)
Issac Newton, «No hypotheses…»
I contrive no hypotheses.
(Newton: Principia Mathematica.)
Albeit…
Albeit it does move!
(Attributed to Galileo Galilei.)
Samuel Butler, «A hen…»
A hen is only an egg’s way
of making another egg.
(Samuel Butler (II): Life and habit.)
Thomas Edison, “I have not failed.”
I have not failed.
I have just found 10,000 things
that do not work.
(Thomas Edison.)