Most Striking At First Is The Appearance

For A Long Time The Objects That Mathematicians Dealt With Were Mostly Ill-defined; One Believed One Knew Them, But One Represented Them With The Senses And Imagination; But One Had But A Rough Picture And Not A Precise Idea On Which Reasoning Could Take Hold.

A Scientist Worthy Of His Name, About All A Mathematician, Experiences In His Work The Same Impression As An Artist; His Pleasure Is As Great And Of The Same Nature.

Deviner Avant De Démontrer! Ai-je Besoin De Rappeler Que C'est Ainsi Que Se Sont Faites Toutes Les Découvertes Importantes.

Why Is It That Showers And Even Storms Seem To Come By Chance, So That Many People Think It Quite Natural To Pray For Rain Or Fine Weather, Though They Would Consider It Ridiculous To Ask For An Eclipse By Prayer.

Mathematical Discoveries, Small Or Great Are Never Born Of Spontaneous Generation They Always Presuppose A Soil Seeded With Preliminary Knowledge And Well Prepared By Labour, Both Conscious And Subconscious.