Mathematics Is The Queen Of The Sciences.

Mathematics Is The Queen Of The Sciences.

The Problem Of Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers And Of Resolving The Latter Into Their Prime Factors Is Known To Be One Of The Most Important And Useful In Arithmetic.

It May Be True That People Who Are Merely Mathematicians Have Certain Specific Shortcomings; However That Is Not The Fault Of Mathematics, But Is True Of Every Exclusive Occupation. Likewise A Mere Linguist, A Mere Jurist, A Mere Soldier, A Mere Merchant, And So Forth. One Could Add Such Idle Chatter That When A Certain Exclusive Occupation Is Often Connected With Certain Specific Shortcomings, It Is On The Other Hand Always Free Of Certain Other Shortcomings.

It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act Of Learning, Not Possession But The Act Of Getting There, Which Grants The Greatest Enjoyment. When I Have Clarified And Exhausted A Subject, Then I Turn Away From It, In Order To Go Into Darkness Again; The Never-satisfied Man Is So Strange If He Has Completed A Structure, Then It Is Not In Order To Dwell In It Peacefully,but In Order To Begin Another. I Imagine The World Conqueror Must Feel Thus, Who, After One Kingdom Is Scarcely Conquered, Stretches Out His Arms For Others.

In The Last Two Months I Have Been Very Busy With My Own Mathematical Speculations, Which Have Cost Me Much Time, Without My Having Reached My Original Goal. Again And Again I Was Enticed By The Frequently Interesting Prospects From One Direction To The Other, Sometimes Even By Will-o'-the-wisps, As Is Not Rare In Mathematic Speculations.