Any One Who Considers Arithmetical Methods Of

There Probably Is A God. Many Things Are Easier To Explain If There Is Than If There Isn't.

The Most Vitally Characteristic Fact About Mathematics Is, In My Opinion, Its Quite Peculiar Relationship To The Natural Sciences, Or More Generally, To Any Science Which Interprets Experience On A Higher Than Purely Descriptive Level.

With Four Parameters I Can Fit An Elephant, And With Five I Can Make Him Wiggle His Trunk.

There's No Sense In Being Precise When You Don't Even Know What You're Talking About.

It Is Exceptional That One Should Be Able To Acquire The Understanding Of A Process Without Having Previously Acquired A Deep Familiarity With Running It, With Using It, Before One Has Assimilated It In An Instinctive And Empirical Way... Thus Any Discussion Of The Nature Of Intellectual Effort In Any Field Is Difficult, Unless It Presupposes An Easy, Routine Familiarity With That Field. In Mathematics This Limitation Becomes Very Severe.