No One Shall Expel Us From The

One Hears A Lot Of Talk About The Hostility Between Scientists And Engineers. I Don't Believe In Any Such Thing. In Fact I Am Quite Certain It Is Untrue... There Cannot Possibly Be Anything In It Because Neither Side Has Anything To Do With The Other.

Geometry Is The Most Complete Science.

In Mathematics ... We Find Two Tendencies Present. On The One Hand, The Tendency Towards Abstraction Seeks To Crystallise The Logical Relations Inherent In The Maze Of Materials ... Being Studied, And To Correlate The Material In A Systematic And Orderly Manner. On The Other Hand, The Tendency Towards Intuitive Understanding Fosters A More Immediate Grasp Of The Objects One Studies, A Live Rapport With Them, So To Speak, Which Stresses The Concrete Meaning Of Their Relations.

The Art Of Doing Mathematics Consists In Finding That Special Case Which Contains All The Germs Of Generality.

Mathematics Is A Game Played According To Certain Simple Rules With Meaningless Marks On Paper.