Mathematics Is Not Only Real, But It

If You Ask Me To Tell You Anything About The Nature Of What Lies Beyond The Phaneron… My Answer Is “how Should I Know?”… I Am Not Dismayed By Ultimate Mysteries… I Can No More Grasp What Is Behind Such Questions As My Cat Can Understand What Is Behind The Clatter I Make While I Type This Paragraph.

One Would Be Hard Put To Find A Set Of Whole Numbers With A More Fascinating History And More Elegant Properties Surrounded By Greater Depths Of Mystery--and More Totally Useless--than The Perfect Numbers.

The Violence And Double-talk In The Alice Books Probably Does No Harm To Children, But The Novels Should Not Be Allowed To Circulate Indiscriminately Among Adults Who Are Undergoing Analysis.

Although Lewis Carroll Thought Of The Hunting Of The Snark As A Nonsense Ballad For Children, It Is Hard To Imagine - In Fact One Shudders To Imagine - A Child Of Today Reading And Enjoying It.

The Computers Are Not Replacing Mathematicians; They Are Breeding Them.