Theory Attracts Practice As The Magnet Attracts

You Have No Idea, How Much Poetry There Is In The Calculation Of A Table Of Logarithms!

Mathematics Is The Queen Of Science, And Arithmetic The Queen Of Mathematics.

No Contradictions Will Arise As Long As Finite Man Does Not Mistake The Infinite For Something Fixed, As Long As He Is Not Led By An Acquired Habit Of Mind To Regard The Infinite As Something Bounded.

In My Opinion Instruction Is Very Purposeless For Such Individuals Who Do No Want Merely To Collect A Mass Of Knowledge, But Are Mainly Interested In Exercising (training) Their Own Powers. One Doesn't Need To Grasp Such A One By The Hand And Lead Him To The Goal, But Only From Time To Time Give Him Suggestions, In Order That He May Reach It Himself In The Shortest Way.

His Second Motto: Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess; To Thy Laws My Services Are Bound.