The Emphasis On Mathematical Methods Seems To

It Is Exceptional That One Should Be Able To Acquire The Understanding Of A Process Without Having Previously Acquired A Deep Familiarity With Running It, With Using It, Before One Has Assimilated It In An Instinctive And Empirical Way... Thus Any Discussion Of The Nature Of Intellectual Effort In Any Field Is Difficult, Unless It Presupposes An Easy, Routine Familiarity With That Field. In Mathematics This Limitation Becomes Very Severe.

Truth Is Much Too Complicated To Allow Anything But Approximations.

Life Is A Process Which May Be Abstracted From Other Media.

The Calculus Was The First Achievement Of Modern Mathematics And It Is Difficult To Overestimate Its Importance. I Think It Defines More Unequivocally Than Anything Else The Inception Of Modern Mathematics; And The System Of Mathematical Analysis, Which Is Its Logical Development, Still Constitutes The Greatest Technical Advance In Exact Thinking.

Young Man, In Mathematics You Don't Understand Things. You Just Get Used To Them.