Mathematics Is The Art Of Giving The

Talk With M. Hermite. He Never Evokes A Concrete Image, Yet You Soon Perceive That The More Abstract Entities Are To Him Like Living Creatures.

It Is By Logic That We Prove, But By Intuition That We Discover. To Know How To Criticize Is Good, To Know How To Create Is Better.

All The Scientist Creates In A Fact Is The Language In Which He Enunciates It. If He Predicts A Fact, He Will Employ This Language, And For All Those Who Can Speak And Understand It, His Prediction Is Free From Ambiguity. Moreover, This Prediction Once Made, It Evidently Does Not Depend Upon Him Whether It Is Fulfilled Or Not.

What Is It Indeed That Gives Us The Feeling Of Elegance In A Solution, In A Demonstration?

Doubt Everything Or Believe Everything: These Are Two Equally Convenient Strategies. With Either We Dispense With The Need For Reflection.